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Millcayac language

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Ethnicity
  
Huarpe people

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Language family
  
Huarpean Millcayac

Linguist list
  
qgb (Milykayak)

Native to
  
Argentina, dispossessed to Chile

Extinct
  
few Huarpean speakers left by 1630

Millcayac (Milykayak) was one of two known Warpean languages. It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century before being described. The people became mestizo and lost their language soon after.

References

Millcayac language Wikipedia