Cholón language
Cholón (Cholona), also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a recently extinct language of Peru.
| Cholón | |
|---|---|
| Seeptsá | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Huallaga River valley |
| Extinct | ca. 2000 |
Hibito–Cholon ?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cht |
| Glottolog | chol1284[1] |
It was spoken near Uchiza,[2] from Tingo María to Valle in the Huallaga River valley of Huanuco and San Martín regions.[3]
Phonology
Due to the amateur Spanish pronunciation spellings used to transcribe Cholon, its sound inventory is uncertain. The following is an attempt at interpreting them (Adelaar 2004:464).
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | |||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||
| Approximant | w | l | ʎ, j |
The vowels appeared to have been similar to Spanish [a e i o u].
Grammar
Cholon distinguishes masculine and feminine grammatical gender in the second person. That is, one used different forms for "you" depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman:
| katsok | 'house' |
| aktsok | 'my house' |
| miktsok | 'your house' (speaking to a man) |
| piktsok | 'your house' (speaking to a woman) |
| intʃamma | 'what did you say?' (speaking to a man) |
| intʃampa | 'what did you say?' (speaking to a woman) |
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cholon". 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.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Peru languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- Adelaar, Willem (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.
- Fabre, Alain. 2005. Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: Cholón
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