Sechura language
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| Sechura | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Piura Region |
| Extinct | late 19th Century? |
| Language family |
Sechura–Catacao?
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Linguist List | qfi |
The Sechura language, also known as Sek, is an extinct language spoken in the Piura Region of Peru, near the port of Sechura. It appears to have become extinct by the beginning of the 20th Century.[1]
Classification [edit]
Sechura, along with its sister language Tallán, are too poorly known to be definitively classified. Kaufman notes that a connection between Sechura and the Catacaoan languages is likely and is supported by lexical evidence.[2]
Sek family [edit]
Rivet groups Sechura and Tallán together under the same Sek when he compares them to the Catacaoan languages.[3] In comparing wordlists from Sechura and Tallán, Torero finds six likely cognates between the two:[4]
| Tallán | Sechura | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| water | xoto | tujut | river |
| son/daughter | ños-ma | ños-ñi | son/daughter |
| light | yura | yoro | sun |
| beach | coyu roro | roro | sea |
| woman | cucatama | cuctum | woman |
| fish | xuma | jum | fish |
References [edit]
- ^ Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 398–401. ISBN 0-521-36275-X.
- ^ Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more". In Payne, D.L. Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 13–67. ISBN 0-292-70414-3
- ^ Rivet, Paul (1949). "Les langues de l'ancien diocèse de Trujillo". Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris (in French) (Paris) 38: 1–51.
- ^ Torero Fernández de Córdova, Alfredo A. (1986). "Deslindes lingüísticos en la costa norte peruana". Revista Andina (in Spanish) (Cuzco: Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas) 4: 523–48.
