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Payagua language

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.

Viegas Barros (2004) proposed that Payaguá may be a Macro-Guaicurúan language. However, Campbell (2012) classifies Payagua as a language isolate.

Two distinct dialects of Payaguá are distinguished by José Pedro Viegas Barros [es] (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.

A total of 630 words are known in the language.

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