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Cholon language

Cholón
Seeptsá
Native to Peru
Region Huallaga River valley
Extinct ca. 2000
Hibito–Cholon
  • Cholón
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog chol1284
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Cholón, also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a recently extinct language of Peru.

Due to the amateur Spanish pronunciation spellings 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 [a e i o u].

Cholon distinguishes masculine and feminine grammatical gender in the second person. That is, one used different forms for "you" depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman:


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