Catacao language

Catacao
Katakao
Native to	Peru
Region	Piura Region
Ethnicity	Catacáos
Extinct	by 1864 [1]
Language family	Sechura–Catacao? Catacaoan Catacao
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qrv
Glottolog	cata1293
Map of Catacaoan languages. Catacao is at the bottom of the yellow area.

Catacao (Katakao) is an extinct language of Peru.

Vocabulary

Colan and Catacao vocabulary: ^{[2] [note 1]}

English	Colan	Catacao
drink	kum	konekuk
heart	ñessini-m	ñiesiñi-čim
water	yup	yup
woman	pi-m	pi-čim
fire	huyur	guanararak
daughter	hiku-m	yku-čim kapuk
son	hiku-m	yku-čim
river	yup [water]	tuyurup
brother	pua-m	pua-čim
grass	aguakol	taguakol
man	yatadla-m	aszat
moon	nag	nam
eat	agua	agua-čim
sea	amum	amaum
mother	nu-m	ni-čim
dead	dlakati	ynata-klakatu
bird	yaiau	yeya
bone	dladlapi-ram	lalape-čen
rain (v.)	ñar	ñarakñakitutin
rain (n.)	nug	guayakinum
fish	llas	llas
branch	yabiti-ram	yabike
rule (v.)	čañar	čañak
sister	puru-m	puru-čim
sun	turinap	nap
earth	dlurum	durum
trunk	tuku-ram	taksikáas
wind	kuiat ñap	vik

Notes

1. Loukotka was based in the list of the bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón: «43 voces castellanas traducidas alas ocho lenguas que hablan los indios de la costa, sierra y montañas del obispado de Trujillo del Perú, por el obispo de esta misma ciudad, baltazar Martinez de Compañón», written circa 1780.

References

1. Urban, Matthias (2019). "The Tallán languages". Lost languages of the Peruvian north coast. Estudios Indiana. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag. pp. 73–96. ISBN   978-3-7861-2826-7. OCLC   1090545680.
2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1949). "Sur quelques langues inconnues de l'Amérique du Sud". Lingua Posnaniensis (in French). 1: 53–82.