Sanavirón language

{{Short description|Extinct language of Argentina}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Sanavirón

| nativename =

| states = Argentina

| ethnicity = {{ill|Sanavirones|es|Sanavirones}}

| extinct = ?

| familycolor = American

| family = unclassified (isolate?)

| iso3 = none

| glotto = none

| linglist = 1nf

| map = Sanaviron language map (2).svg

| mapcaption = Map of the Sanavirón language

| region = Salinas Grandes

}}

Sanavirón is an extinct and unclassified language once spoken near the Salinas Grandes in Córdoba, Argentina. 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}} classified it as a language isolate, but there is insufficient data to justify this according to Campbell (2012).{{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}} Previous classifications have linked it with Comechingón, Cacán, or Lule–Vilela.{{cite book |last=Mason |first=John Alden |author-link=John Alden Mason |url=https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/hsai:vol6p157-317/vol6p157-317_mason.pdf |title=Handbook of South American Indians |date=1950 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 |editor-last1=Steward |editor-first1=Julian |volume=6 |location=Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office |pages=157–317 |chapter=The languages of South America}}