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
The Huallaga River is a tributary of the Marañón River, part of the Amazon Basin. Old names for this river include ''Guallaga'' and ''Rio de los Motilones''. The Huallaga is born on the slopes of the Andes in central Peru and joins the Marañón ...
valley of
Huanuco and
San Martín regions.
Phonology
Due to the amateur Spanish
pronunciation spelling
A pronunciation respelling is a regular phonetic respelling of a word that has a standard spelling but whose pronunciation according to that spelling may be ambiguous, which is used to indicate the pronunciation of that word. Pronunciation respe ...
s 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
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*Fabre, Alain. 2005. ''Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos
Cholón '
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Indigenous languages of South America
Hibito–Cholon languages
Extinct languages of South America
Languages extinct in the 2000s