Puquina

E305135

Puquina is an extinct and poorly documented indigenous language once spoken in the Andean region of South America, particularly around Lake Titicaca.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Puquina canonical 1
Puquina (extinct) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf extinct language
indigenous language
language
associatedWithCulture Inca Empire
Tiwanaku culture
surface form: Tiwanaku civilization
attestedInScript Latin script
attestedInSourceType colonial grammars
colonial vocabularies
colonial-era wordlists
documentationStatus poorly documented
extinctionCertainty probably extinct
hasAlternativeClassification unclassified language
hasApproximateExtinctionCentury 19th century
hasGlottologStatus listed as extinct
hasISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code assigned
hasLanguageFamilyStatus language isolate
hasLexicalEvidenceType loanwords in neighboring languages
hasMorphologicalReconstructionStatus very limited
hasPhonologicalReconstructionStatus very limited
hasProposedRelation Arawakan languages
Candoshi language
Chonan languages
surface form: Chon languages

Kawesqar language
Araucanian languages
surface form: Mapuche language

Mochica language
Moseten–Chon hypothesis
Panoan languages
surface form: Pano–Takanan languages

Quechuan language family
surface form: Quechuan languages

Uru-Chipaya language
surface form: Uru–Chipaya languages
hasResearchChallenge confusion with neighboring languages
scarcity of reliable data
hasResearchField Andean linguistics
historical linguistics
hasSubstrateInfluenceOn Kallawaya language
some Aymara varieties
some Quechua varieties
hasSyntacticReconstructionStatus very limited
hasType spoken language
influencedToponymy Lake Titicaca region
Southern Peru
surface form: southern Peru

western Bolivia
languageStatus extinct
spokenAround Lake Titicaca
spokenInContinent South America
spokenInCountry Bolivia
Peru
spokenInRegion Andean region
spokenNear Lake Titicaca region
surface form: Tiwanaku region
usedAs possible ritual language in Inca Empire

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chinchaysuyu languageUsed Puquina
Andean linguistic area hasLanguage Puquina
this entity surface form: Puquina (extinct)