Catacaoan languages
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The Catacaoan languages are an extinct family of three languages spoken in the Piura Region of Peru. The three languages in the family are:[1]
- Catacao or Katakao, once spoken around the city of Catacaos
- Colán or Kolán, once spoken between the Piura River and Chira River
- Chira or Lachira or Tangarará, once spoken along the Chira River. It is unattested.
- Terrence Kaufman includes the Leco language in the Catacaoan group.
Catacao and Colán are frequently subsumed into the extinct Tallán language as dialects, thus making the Catacaoan family synonymous with Tallán.[2][3][4]
Vocabulary comparison
| English | Colan | Catacao |
|---|---|---|
| drink | kum | konekuk |
| heart | ñessini-m | ñiesiñi-čim |
| water | yup | yup |
| woman | pi-m | pi-čim |
| fire | huyur | guanararak |
| daughter | hiku-m | yku-čim kapuk |
| son | hiku-m | yku-čim |
| river | yup [water] | tuyurup |
| brother | pua-m | pua-čim |
| grass | aguakol | taguakol |
| man | yatadla-m | aszat |
| moon | nag | nam |
| eat | agua | agua-čim |
| sea | amum | amaum |
| mother | nu-m | ni-čim |
| dead | dlakati | ynata-klakatu |
| bird | yaiau | yeya |
| bone | dladlapi-ram | lalape-čen |
| rain (v.) | ñar | ñarakñakitutin |
| rain (n.) | nug | guayakinum |
| fish | llas | llas |
| branch | yabiti-ram | yabike |
| rule (v.) | čañar | čañak |
| sister | puru-m | puru-čim |
| sun | turinap | nap |
| earth | dlurum | durum |
| trunk | tuku-ram | taksikáas |
| wind | kuiat ñap | vik |
Genetic relations
Loukota compares Catacaoan to the Culle language and the Sechura language but does not make any claims about genetic relatedness.[5]
References
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- ↑ Loukotka was based in the list of the bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón: «43 voces castellanas traducidas alas ocho lenguas que hablan los indios de la costa, sierra y montañas del obispado de Trujillo del Perú, por el obispo de esta misma ciudad, baltazar Martinez de Compañón», written circa 1780.
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