Aguano language

{{Short description|Unclassified language of Peru}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Aguano

| nativename =

| states = Peru

| region = Santa Cruz de Huallaga

| ethnicity = 40 Aguano families (1959)

| ref = e26

| extinct = 16th century

| familycolor = american

| family = unclassified (Arawakan?)

| iso3 = aga

| glotto = agua1251

| glottorefname = Aguano

| dia1 = Cuitinana

| dia2 = Maparina

| dia3 = Aguano proper

| altname = Santa Crucino

| acceptance = unattested

}}

Aguano is the extinct language of the Aguano people of Peru. Loukotka (1968){{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |authorlink=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}} identified it with Chamicuro, but Chamicuro speakers say that the Aguano people spoke Quechua (Wise 1987).

However, Steward (1946) notes that the Aguano had adopted Quechua soon after the Conquest and that their original language is unclassified.Julian Steward (1946) Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 3, p. 271, 558

More recently, Campbell & Grondona (2012) leave Aguano unclassified due to lack of attestation.Campbell, Lyle, and Verónica Grondona (eds). 2012. The indigenous languages of South America: a comprehensive guide. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.