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Cholón (Cholona), also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a recently extinct language of Peru.

Cholón
Seeptsá
Native to	Peru
Region	Huallaga River valley
Extinct	c. 2000
Language family	Hibito–Cholon ? Cholón
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cht
Glottolog	chol1284
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It was spoken near Uchiza,[1] from Tingo María to Valle in the Huallaga River valley of Huanuco and San Martín regions.[2]

Phonology

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).

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative		s	ʃ	h
Approximant	w	l	ʎ, j

The vowels appeared to have been similar to Spanish [a e~ɪ i o~ʊ u].

Grammar

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:

katsok	'house'
aktsok	'my house'
miktsok	'your house' (speaking to a man)
piktsok	'your house' (speaking to a woman)
intʃamma	'what did you say?' (speaking to a man)
intʃampa	'what did you say?' (speaking to a woman)

References

• Adelaar, Willem (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.
• Fabre, Alain. 2005. Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: Cholón

На других языках

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- [en] Cholón language

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[fr] Cholón

Le cholón est une langue cholonane parlée en Amazonie péruvienne dans une région s'étendant de la rivière Huallaga, jusqu'aux pentes des Andes.

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[ru] Чолонский язык

Чолонский (чолон; исп. Cholón) — язык индейцев северного Перу, вымерший на рубеже XX и XXI веков. Вместе с языком хибито составляет чолонскую (хибито-чолонскую) языковую семью.

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