Puruhá language

{{Short description|Extinct language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Puruhá

| region = Ecuadoran Andes, Marañón River basin

| extinct = early Colonial era

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Cañari–Puruhá

| iso3 = none

| glotto = puru1257

| glottoname = Puruha

| glotto2 = puru1267

| glottoname2 = Puruguay

| states = Ecuador

| altname = Puruguay

}}

Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá)Puruhá and Puruguai/Puruguay are synonyms per Loukotka (1968) is a poorly attested extinct language of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador which is difficult to classify, apart from being apparently related to Cañari, though it may have been Barbacoan.{{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}}{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |authorlink=Lyle Campbell |editor1-last=Grondona |editor1-first=Verónica |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=Lyle |date=2012 |title=The Indigenous Languages of South America |chapter=Classification of the indigenous languages of South America |series=The World of Linguistics |volume=2 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=59–166 |isbn=978-3-11-025513-3}} (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.)