The Catacaoan languages are an extinct family of three languages spoken in the
Piura Region of
Peru
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. The three languages in the family are:
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Catacao or Katakao, once spoken around the city of
Catacaos
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Colán or Kolán, once spoken between the
Piura River
The Piura River is a river in northern Peru. The river flows westward from the Andes to the Pacific Ocean and is susceptible to major flooding. Piura is the largest city along the river's course.
Course
The Piura River has its source in eastern ...
and
Chira River
Chira River or Rio Chira is the name of a river (as well as valley) in northern Peru whose mouth is 100 km north west of the provincial capital of Piura and 25 km north of the port of Paita.
Its source is in the Ecuadorian Andes near th ...
*Chira or Lachira or Tangarará, once spoken along the
Chira River
Chira River or Rio Chira is the name of a river (as well as valley) in northern Peru whose mouth is 100 km north west of the provincial capital of Piura and 25 km north of the port of Paita.
Its source is in the Ecuadorian Andes near th ...
. It is unattested.
In Glottolog, the two attested languages, Catacao and Colán, are subsumed into the extinct
Tallán language as dialects.
Vocabulary comparison
Genetic relations
Loukota compares Catacaoan to the
Culle language and the
Sechura language
The Sechura language, also known as Sek, is an extinct language spoken in the Piura Region of Peru, near the port of Sechura
Sechura is a city in northwestern Peru, south of Piura. It is the capital of Sechura Province in the Piura Region. ...
but does not make any claims about genetic relatedness.
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References
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Indigenous languages of South America
Languages of Peru
Language families