Huancavilca 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.

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.