Aguano language

Aguano is a possible extinct language of Peru. Loukotka (1968)[2] classified it as Chamicuro, but Chamicuro speakers say that the Aguano language was not the same as theirs, but rather that the Aguano people spoke Quechua (Wise 1987).

Aguano
Native toPeru
Ethnicity40 Aguano families in Santa Cruz de Huallaga.
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3aga
Glottologagua1251[1]

Names and varieties

Alternate spellings are Uguano, Aguanu, Awano; it has also been called Santa Crucino.

Mason (1950) listed three Aguano groups, Aguano proper (including Seculusepa/Chilicawa and Melikine/Tivilo), Cutinana, and Maparina.[3] Schematically, these can be summarized as:

  • Aguano proper
    • Seculusepa (Chilicawa)
    • Melikine (Tivilo)
  • Cutinana
  • Maparina
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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Aguano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. Mason, J. Alden. 1950. The languages of South America. In: Julian Steward (ed.), Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 6, 157–317. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143.) Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.


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