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Hibito Language
Hibito (spelled variously ''Híbito, Hívito, Chibito, Ibito, Jibito, Xibita, Zibito'') is an extinct language of Peru. It, together with Cholón, also extinct, constituted the Hibito-Cholon family. There were 500 speakers reported in 1850. Loukotka (1968) reports that it was spoken along the Huamo River, just north of the Cholón area. References {{South American languages Indigenous languages of the Americas Hibito–Cholon languages Extinct languages of South America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibito–Cholon Languages
The extinct Hibito–Cholón or Cholónan languages form a proposed language family that links two languages of Peru, Hibito and Cholón, extinct . They may also be related to the extinct Culle language, and perhaps to the language of the Chachapoya, but the data for all of these languages is poor. Language contact Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kechua, Leko, Mapudungun Mapuche (, Mapuche & Spanish: , or Mapudungun; from ' 'land' and ' 'speak, speech') is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people (from ''mapu'' 'land' and ''che ..., Mochika, Kandoshi, Muniche, and Barbakoa language families due to contact. Lexicon Several basic Hibito and Cholon words appear to be related, though the data on both languages is poor. The following examples are given in the ''ad hoc'' orthography of the three sources we have on these languages: : Comparative word lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cholón Language
Cholón (Cholona), also known as ''Seeptsá'' and ''Tsinganeses'', is a recently extinct language of Peru. It was spoken near Uchiza, from Tingo María to Valle in the Huallaga River valley of Huanuco and San Martín regions. 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). The vowels appeared to have been similar to Spanish . Grammar Cholon distinguishes masculine and feminine grammatical gender In linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender categories that are often not related to their real-world qualities. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all noun ... in the second person. That is, one used different forms for "you" depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman: References * *Fabre, Alain. 2005. ''Diccionario etnoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Languages Of The Americas
Over a thousand indigenous languages are spoken by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. These languages cannot all be demonstrated to be related to each other and are classified into a hundred or so language families (including a large number of language isolates), as well as a number of extinct languages that are unclassified because of a lack of data. Many proposals have been made to relate some or all of these languages to each other, with varying degrees of success. The most notorious is Joseph Greenberg's Amerind hypothesis, which however nearly all specialists reject because of severe methodological flaws; spurious data; and a failure to distinguish cognation, contact, and coincidence. Nonetheless, there are indications that some of the recognized families are related to each other, such as widespread similarities in pronouns (e.g., ''n''/''m'' is a common pattern for 'I'/'you' across western North America, and ''ch''/''k''/''t'' for 'I'/'you'/'we' is similarly found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
