Copallén language
| Copallén | |
|---|---|
| Copallín | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Marañón River basin |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
unclassified (Cholon?) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | copa1238 |
Copallín (Copallén) is an extinct language of the Marañón River basin formerly spoken in Peru.
Geographical distribution
[edit]It was spoken in villages of Llanque, Las Lomas del Viento, and Copallín, department of Cajamarca.[1][2]
Vocabulary
[edit]Four words are attested from Copallén (Copallín): quiet [kjet] 'water', chumac 'maize', olaman 'firewood', and ismare 'house'. The word for water resembles the toponymic element -cat, posited to be an otherwise unknown language of the region.[2] However, this is insufficient to identify Copallén as a Cholónan language.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA: Latin American Center, University of California Los Angeles. p. 239. ISBN 9780879031077.
- 1 2 Adelaar, Willem F. H; Muysken, Pieter C. (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Copallen". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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