Copallín language

Copallén
Native toPeru
RegionMarañón River basin
Extinct(date missing)
unclassified (Cholon?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologcopa1238

Copallín is an extinct language of the Marañón River basin formerly spoken in Peru.

Geographical distribution

It was spoken in villages of Llanque, Las Lomas, and Copallen, department of Cajamarca.[1]

Vocabulary

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. However, this is insufficient to identify Copallén as a Cholónan language.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Copallen". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.