Charruan languages

Charruan may actually consist of two or three unrelated families according to Nikulin (2019).Nikulin, Andrey V. 2019. [https://www.hse.ru/mirror/pubs/share/317133282 The classification of the languages of the South American Lowlands: State-of-the-art and challenges / Классификация языков востока Южной Америки]. Illič-Svityč (Nostratic) Seminar / Ностратический семинар, Higher School of Economics, October 17, 2019. Nikulin notes that many of the following languages share very few basic vocabulary items with each other.

1. Chaná as spoken by Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime
2. Chaná of Larrañaga (1923)Larrañaga, Dámaso Antonio. 1923. [http://biblio.etnolinguistica.org/larranaga_1923_compendio Compendio del idioma de la nación chaná.] In Escritos de D. Dámaso A. Larrañaga, tomo III, 163-174. Montevideo: Instituto Histórico y Geográfico del Uruguay, Imprenta Nacional.
3. Charrúa of Vilardebó (1842)
4. Güenoa from a short 18th-century catechesis quoted by Lorenzo Hervás y PanduroHervás y Panduro, Lorenzo. 1787. Saggio Pratico delle lingue. (Idea dell'Universo, XXI.) Cesena: Gregorio Biasini all'Insengna di Pallade. 255pp.

Four languages are considered to definitively belong to the Charruan language family, basically Chañá (Lanték), Nbeuá, Charrúa and Guenoa.{{Citation

| last = Loukotka

| first = Čestmír

| author-link = Čestmír Loukotka

| title = Classification of South American Indian Languages

| publisher = UCLA Latin American Center

| year = 1968

| location = Los Angeles}} Nbeuá is thought to be a dialect of Chaná. A fourth language, Balomar, is claimed to exist by Loukotka (1968), but there is no data on it.

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• Charruan languages
• Chaná ({{extinct}})
• Chaná proper
• "Mbeguá", "Beguá", or "Chaná-Beguá"
• "Timbúes", "Chaná Timbúes", "Timbó", or "Chaná timbó"
• Charrúa {{extinct}}
• Güenoa (Minuan) {{extinct}}
• Balomar (unattested) {{extinct}}{{tree list/end}}

A number of unattested languages are also presumed to belong to the Charruan family:

• Bohane – spoken near Maldonado, or Salto, in Uruguay
• Calchine – spoken in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, along the Salado River
• Caracañá – spoken along the Caracañá River, Santa Fe
• Chaná-Mbegua or Begua – spoken on the Paraná River between Crespo and Victoria
• Colastiné – spoken in Santa Fe Province near Colastiné
• Corondá – spoken in Coronda, Santa Fe Province
• Guaiquiaré – spoken in Entre Ríos on the Arroyo Guaiquiraré
• Mocoreta or Macurendá or Mocolete – spoken along the Mocoretá River in Entre Ríos Province
• Pairindi – spoken in Entre Ríos from Corrientes to the Feliciano River
• Timbu – spoken in Gaboto, Santa Fe Province
• Yaro – spoken in Uruguay between the Río Negro and the San Salvador River

Jorge Suárez includes Charruan with Guaicuruan in a hypothetical Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh includes Charruan along with Guaicuruan, Matacoan, and Mascoyan within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals appear to be obsolete.

The Charruan languages are poorly attested. However, sufficient vocabulary has been gathered for the languages to be compared:This comparison table is a revision by Br. José Damián Torko Gómez, based on the J.C. Sábat Pébet and J.J. Figueira compilation of all terms known of the "Uruguayan" aboriginal languages. Source: https://www.estudioshistoricos-en.edu.uy/assets/080-boletín-histórico-nº-120---123---año-1969.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Lexical comparison from Nikulin (2019):

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