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Puruhá language

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Region
  
Ecuadoran Andes

Language family
  
Cañari–Puruhá Puruhá

Extinct
  
early Colonial era

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Glottolog
  
puru1257  (Puruha) puru1267  (Puruguay)

Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) 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. (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.)

References

Puruhá language Wikipedia