Catacaoan languages
The Catacaoan languages are an extinct family of three languages spoken in the Piura Region of Peru. The three languages in the family are:[2]
- Catacao or Katakao, once spoken around the city of Catacaos
- Colán or Kolán, once spoken between the Piura River and Chira River
- Chira or Lachira or Tangarará, once spoken along the Chira River. It is unattested.
| Catacaoan | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Piura Region, Peru |
| Linguistic classification | Sechura–Catacao
|
| Subdivisions |
|
| Glottolog | tall1235[1] |
 Location of the Catacaoan languages within Piura Region | |
In Glottolog, the two attested languages, Catacao and Colán, are subsumed as dialects in the Tallán language.
Vocabulary comparison
| English | Colan | Catacao |
|---|---|---|
| drink | kum | konekuk |
| heart | ñessini-m | ñiesiñi-čim |
| water | yup | yup |
| woman | pi-m | pi-čim |
| fire | huyur | guanararak |
| daughter | hiku-m | yku-čim kapuk |
| son | hiku-m | yku-čim |
| river | yup [water] | tuyurup |
| brother | pua-m | pua-čim |
| grass | aguakol | taguakol |
| man | yatadla-m | aszat |
| moon | nag | nam |
| eat | agua | agua-čim |
| sea | amum | amaum |
| mother | nu-m | ni-čim |
| dead | dlakati | ynata-klakatu |
| bird | yaiau | yeya |
| bone | dladlapi-ram | lalape-čen |
| rain (v.) | ñar | ñarakñakitutin |
| rain (n.) | nug | guayakinum |
| fish | llas | llas |
| branch | yabiti-ram | yabike |
| rule (v.) | čañar | čañak |
| sister | puru-m | puru-čim |
| sun | turinap | nap |
| earth | dlurum | durum |
| trunk | tuku-ram | taksikáas |
| wind | kuiat ñap | vik |
Genetic relations
Loukota compares Catacaoan to the Culle language and the Sechura language but does not make any claims about genetic relatedness.[3]
gollark: I do have a physical set somewhere.
gollark: I didn't get round to checking the code beyond skimming it yet.
gollark: Interestingly, the AI in the tic tac toe entry isn't unbeatable and actually quite bad.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/472556733995155458/927376939159793724/unknown.png
gollark: If you give me enough money, I can buy a shinier, newer, more RAM-having server.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tallán". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- Loukotka, Čestmír (1949). "Sur quelques langues inconnues de l'Amérique du Sud". Lingua Posnaniensis (in French). 1: 53–82.
- Loukotka was based in the list of the bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón: «43 voces castellanas traducidas alas ocho lenguas que hablan los indios de la costa, sierra y montañas del obispado de Trujillo del Perú, por el obispo de esta misma ciudad, baltazar Martinez de Compañón», written circa 1780.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.