Huancavilca (Wankawilka, Huacavelica, Huancahuilca) is an extinct unclassified language formerly spoken by the Huancavilca people in Guayas, Manabí and Santa Elena Provinces in Ecuador. Classification
Mason (1950) lists Apichiquí, Cancebí, Charapoto, Pichote, Pichoasac, Pichunsi, Manabí, Jarahusa, and Jipijapa as dialects of Atalán. Rivet (1924) lists Manta, Huancavilca, Puna, and Tumbez within an Atalán family.Rivet, Paul. 1924. Langues Américaines III: Langues de l’Amérique du Sud et des Antilles. In: Antoine Meillet and Marcel Cohen (ed.), Les Langues du Monde, Volume 16, 639–712. Paris: Collection Linguistique. Vocabulary Huancavilca is very poorly known and therefore unclassifiable. Čestmír Loukotka (1968) reported that four words had been compiled in Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño's 1919 book.
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