The extinct Hibito–Cholón or Cholónan languages form a proposed

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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, 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 list of Hibito and Cholon from Loukotka (1949): ;Notes *(Sp.) = Spanish loanword (excluded) ;Sources used by Loukotka (1949) — Hibito *Manuscript by Martínez Compañón from the 1700s *Tessmann (1930) ;Sources Loukotka (1949) — Cholon *Mata (1748)Mata, Fr. Pedro de la. 1748. ''Arte de la lengua Cholona''. Trujillo. Manuscript held at the British Museum in London. (Republished in ''Inca'' (1923), vol. 1, pp. 690-750. Lima.) *Tessmann (1930)Tessmann, Günter. 1930. ''Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde''. Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter. :

References

*Alain Fabre, 2005, ''Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: CHOLÓN

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