| Payaguá | |
|---|---|
| Payawá | |
| Evueví | |
| Native to | Argentina, Paraguay |
| Ethnicity | Payaguá people |
| Extinct | 1942, with the death of María Dominga Miranda[1][2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | paya1236 |
Payaguá (Payawá) is an extinct language isolate, proposed to be a member of the Mataco–Guaicuru languages, formerly spoken in Paraguay and Argentina by the Payaguá.
Classification
Viegas Barros (2004) proposed that Payaguá may be a Macro-Guaicurúan language.[3] However, Campbell (2012) classifies Payagua as a language isolate.[4]
Dialects
Two distinct dialects of Payaguá are distinguished by José Pedro Viegas Barros (2024), who proposes that either one is derived from the other, or that the two varieties coexisted at one time, but one was replaced by the other.[1]
Vocabulary
A total of 630 words are known in the language.[1]
| Payaguá | Gloss |
|---|---|
| yam | I |
| hamo | you |
| yoro | he |
Notes
- Barros, J. Pedro Viegas (24–25 April 2024). Identificación de dos variedades de la lengua Payaguá. I Congreso Internacional de Lingüística en el NOA. Salta.
- Campbell, Lyle (2024-06-25), "Indigenous Languages of South America", The Indigenous Languages of the Americas (1 ed.), Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 182–279, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197673461.003.0004, ISBN 978-0-19-767346-1, retrieved 2025-05-25
- Viegas Barros, José Pedro. 2004. Guaicurú no, macro-Guaicurú sí: Una hipótesis sobre la clasificación de la lengua Guachí (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil). Ms. 34pp.
- Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.
- Loukotka, Čestmír (1949). "Sur quelques langues et dialectes inconnus de l'Amérique du Sud" (PDF). Lingua Posnaniensis. 1: 76–78. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
References
- Boggiani, G. (1900). Lingüística sudamericana: Datos para el estudio de los idiomas Payagua y Machicui. Trabajos de la 4a sección del Congreso Científico Latinoamericano, 203-282. Buenos Aires: Compañía Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco.
- Schmidt, M. (1949). Los Payaguá. Revista do Museu Paulista N.S., 3:129-317.
- Falkenhausen, Olga (1949). "The Payaguá Indians". Ethnos. 14 (2–4): 105–117. doi:10.1080/00141844.1949.9980693.
- Mansfield, Charles Blachford; Latham, Robert Gordon (1854). "A few Payagwá Words (the only list known), and some Account of the Payagwás". Transactions of the Philological Society (11): 229–237.