Hibito Cholón languages
Hibito-Cholón is the name of an indigenous South American language family that consists only of the two individual languages Hibito and Cholón . These were both spoken in Peru and are now extinct.
The Hibito (also: Jibito) was widespread on the Quebrada Bobonaje River, a tributary of the Río Huayabamba . The Cholón, spoken in the valley of the Río Huallaga , did not become extinct until 2000, when the speakers had completely switched to the local variety of Quechua .
The language codes according to ISO 639-3 are [hib] and [cht].
Linguistic characteristics
The free personal pronouns of Cholón are as follows (from Alexander-Bakkerus 2005, p. 158):
person | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
1. | OK | ki-ha |
2. masculine | mi | mi-na-ha |
2. feminine | pi | mi-na-ha |
3. | sa | či-ha |
See also
literature
- Willem FH Adelaar , Pieter C. Muysken : The languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2004, ISBN 0-521-36275-X , pp. 460-475.
- Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus: Eighteenth-century Cholón (= LOT. 120). Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap et al., Utrecht 2005, ISBN 90-76864-86-1 (Leiden, University, dissertation, 2005).
- Pedro de la Mata: Arte de la lengua cholona. (1748) (= Linguística Misionera. 1). Transcripción y edición preparada por Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus. Con un prólogo de Willem FH Adelaar. Iberoamericana et al., Madrid et al. 2007, ISBN 978-84-8489-297-7 .
Web links
- Page no longer available , search in web archives ) In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (eds.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016. (