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Didiuhet
Querandi
Native to	Argentina
Region	Patagonian pampas
Ethnicity	Querandí etc.
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Unclassified; possibly Het or Chonan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	quer1237  Querandi
Approximate distribution of the Het, Puelche, and Chon peoples prior to their genocide

The extinct Het languages are any of several putative languages, possibly related, that may have been spoken by the Het peoples.

The Het population was decimated by the end of the eighteenth century by epidemics, which facilitated the Mapuche absorption of its territory and its survivors rapid Araucanization at the cultural level that consolidated them into the Puelche. For this reason it is today difficult to find evidence of the Het languages. Of Querandí (Diuihet) we only have two sentences and a few words, recorded by French sailors around 1555. Based on this admittedly inadequate data, Viegas Barros showed that Querandí may have been closely related to Puelche. Viegas Barros (2005) further attempted to demonstrate that Puelche is more distantly related to the Chon languages to its south.

Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Chechehet and Querandí; Taluhet is unattested.

gloss	Chechehet	Querandí (Didiuhet)
two	chivil
moon		zobá
earth	chu
bow		afia
great	hati

References

1. Viegas Barros, P. 1992. "La familia lingüística tehuelche. Revista patagónica. 13. 54:39–46. Buenos Aires.
2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.