Chimuan languages
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Chimuan (also Chimúan) is a small extinct language family of northern Peru and Ecuador (inter-Andean valley).
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[edit] Family division
Chimuan consisted of 3 languages:
- A. Yunga
- 1. Mochica (a.k.a. Yunga, Chimú)
- B. Ecuador brach
- 2. Cañari (a.k.a. Cañar, Kanyari)
- 3. Puruhá (a.k.a. Puruwá, Puruguay)
All languages are now extinct.
Mochica was one of the major languages of pre-Columbian South America. It was documented by Fernando de la Carrera and Middendorff in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries respectively. It became extinct ca. 1950, although some people remember a few words. Adelaar & Muysken (2004) consider Mochica a language isolate for now.
Cañari and Puruhá are documented with only a few words. These two languages are usually connected with Mochica. However, as their documentation level is so low, it may not be possible to confirm this association. According to Adelaar & Muysken (2004), Jijón y Caamaño's evidence of their relationship is only a single word: Mochica nech "river", Cañari necha.
[edit] See also
[edit] Links
- PROEL: Familia Chimúan
[edit] Bibliography
- Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
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