Cazcan language

{{Short description|Extinct language of Mexico}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Cazcan

| nativename = Caxcan

| states = Mexico

| region = Zacatecas

| ethnicity = Caxcan

| date =

| familycolor = Uto-Aztecan

| fam1 = Uto-Aztecan

| fam2 = Corachol?
Nahuan?

| iso3 = none

| linglist = 0w2

| glotto = none

| map = File:ChichimecNations.png

| mapcaption = {{legend|#67c787|Caxcan}}

| era = attested 16th-17th centuries

}}

Cazcan or Caxcan (Kaskán), was the language of the Caxcan, one of the Chichimeca peoples of Mexico. It is known only from a few word lists recorded in the 16th and 17th centuries. The language was definitely part of the Uto-Aztecan family, probably related to Huichol or possibly Southern Tepehuan. There appear to have been dialectal differences between the major Caxcan valleys, and it is likely that several other languages were spoken in Caxcan territory.Frank Gille, 1974. Encyclopedia of Indians of the Americas, volume 2