Henia-Kamiare

Henia-Kamiare, usually called Comechigon after the people who spoke it, was the language of the Comechigon groups of the Argentine hills in Cordoba and San Luis. Its two varieties belonged to the northern Henia and southern Kamiare.

Poorly attested, with only a handful of words recorded with confidence, it is treated as an isolate, although links to the Huarpean languages, to Cacan and to the Sanaviron tongue have all been proposed. The Comechigon lived in half-buried stone houses and farmed the dry valleys, but by the 1690s most had been killed or displaced by Spanish conquistadores.

Colonial administration promoted Quechua brought from Upper Peru instead of the local speech, which then died out, leaving petroglyphs and a trace of its vowel-lengthening habit in the Spanish of Cordoba.