Millcayac language

{{Short description|Extinct Warpean language of Argentina}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Millcayac

| states = Argentina, dispossessed to Chile

| ethnicity = Huarpe people

| extinct = 17th century

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Huarpean

| iso3 = none

| linglist = qgb

| lingname = (Milykayak)

| glotto = mill1237

| glottorefname = Millcayac

| altname = Milykayak

| region = Cuyo Province

}}

Millcayac (Milykayak) was one of the Warpean languages.Tornello, Pablo José; Roig, Antruo Andres; Nora Díaz; Luis Aguirre. 2011. Introducción al Millcayac: Idioma de los Huarpes de Mendoza. Mendoza: Zeta. It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century. Luis de Valdivia wrote a grammar, vocabulary and religious texts.Márquez Miranda, Fernando. 1943. Los textos Millcayac del P. Luis de Valdivia con su vocabulario español-Allentiac = Millcayac. Revista del Museo de la Plata (Nueva Série): Antropología II: 61-223. The people became Mestizo and lost their language soon after. {{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}