Hibito Cholón languages

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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 .

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