Cardial
The Huamish languages represent related relatives with the languages of Los Millares and Argaric Culture of the Neolithic Iberian Peninsula, among other related peoples like Turduli. These languages are distantly related to the Kartvelian and Tommian languages that arrived in the Iberian Peninsula about 6000 BC - 5000 BC with possibly the Cardium pottery culture with people that carrying Y-DNA haplogroup G2a.
The name "Huamish" is derived from the Proto-Huamish word for 'body', *hwam. The first speakers were probably located in the peninsular west center due to the great linguistic diversity of the area.
Classification
The vast majority of languages are extinct, but for the year 2009 there were 1,881 speakers distributed among five languages.
| West | Central | East | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | Capori (Padrón) (65 speakers) | Tiburi (A Pobra de Trives) (77 speakers) | |
| Central | "Turduli" (extinct) Paesuri (Entre Douro e Vouga) (278 speakers) / Caluri (Navaconcejo) (1003 speakers) / Elbocori/Tapori/Tapoli (Cedillo) (458 speakers) / Veaminicori (extinct) | Caluri? (Navaconcejo) (1003 speakers) | Pilonicori (extinct) |
| South | Turduli (extinct) | Bastuli (extinct) |
Comparison of numerical systems
|- ! IPA || || || || || || || |- | *ə || *o > *u || *e || *u || *e > *∅ || *e || *u || *a |- |}
| North-West | North-Central | Central-West | Central-Central | Central-East | South-Central | South-east | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2 | *hw | *hw | *hw | *hw | *hw | *hw | *hwərtʰu | 1 | *ərtʰu | *ərtʰu | *ərtʰu | *ərtʰu | *ərtʰu | *tʰu | *pʰi |
| 2 | *ju | *bi | *ju | *ju | *ju | *mi | *ju | ||||||||
| 3 | *sum | *sun | *sum | *sum | *sum | *sum | *sum | ||||||||
| 4 | *ja | *ja | *ja | *ja | *ja | *mə | *hus | ||||||||
| 5 | *hustʰu | *hustʰu | *hustʰu | *hustʰu | *hustʰu | *mətʰu | *hustʰu | ||||||||
| 6 | *sam | *sam | *sam | *sam | *sam | *sam | *sam | ||||||||
| 7 | *samtʰu | *samtʰu | *samtʰu | *samtʰu | *samtʰu | *samtʰu | *samtʰu | ||||||||
| 8 | *jo | *jo | *jo | *jo | *jo | *jo | *jo | ||||||||
| 9 | *tʰusa | *tʰusa | *tʰusa | *tʰusa | *tʰusa | *tʰusa | *tʰusa | ||||||||
| 10 | *hastʰu | *hastʰu | *hastʰu | *hastʰu | *hastʰu | *hastʰu | *sa | ||||||||
| 50 | *iz | *iz | *iz | *iz | *iz | *iz | *iz | ||||||||
| 100 | *əz | *əz | *əz | *əz | *əz | *əz | *əz |
