Payagua language

Payaguá (Payawá) is an extinct language of Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia, spoken by the Payaguá. It is usually classified as one of the Guaicuruan languages, but the data is insufficient to demonstrate that.^[2]

Payaguá
Payawá
Evueví
Native to	Argentina, Paraguay
Ethnicity	Payaguá people
Extinct	1943, with the death of María Dominga Miranda[1]
Language family	Language isolate (Macro-Guaicuru?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qho
Glottolog	paya1236

Classification

Viegas Barros (2004) proposes that Payagua may be a Macro-Guaicurúan language.^[3] However, Campbell (2012) classifies Payagua as a language isolate.^[4]

An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)^[5] found lexical similarities between Payagua and the Chonan languages. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing, genetic inheritance, or chance resemblances.