Tallán is an extinct and poorly attested language of the Piura Region of Peru. It is too poorly known to be definitively classified. It may have a possible connection to neighboring Sechura, termed the Sechura–Catacao languages. In Glottolog and in Jolkesky (2016), the two attested Catacaoan languages, Catacao and Colán, are listed as dialects of Tallán.[2][1]
| Tallán | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Piura Region |
| Ethnicity | Tallán |
| Extinct | early 19th century[1] |
Sechura-Catacao?
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | tall1235 |
 Tallán | |
Dialects
editMason (1950) lists Apichiquí, Cancebí, Charapoto, Pichote, Pichoasac, Pichunsi, Manabí, Jarahusa, and Jipijapa as dialects of Atalán.[3] Rivet (1924) lists Manta, Huancavilca, Puna, and Tumbez within an Atalán family.[4]
Loukotka (1968) makes reference both to Tallán and the Catacaoan language family, treating Tallán as related to Sechura but Catacaoan as a distinct family. He lists the following three languages:
- Catacao or Katakao, once spoken around the city of Catacaos
- Colán or Kolán, once spoken between the Piura River and Chira River
- Chira or Lachira or Tangarará, once spoken along the Chira River. It is unattested.[5]
- Terrence Kaufman includes the Leco language in the Catacaoan group.
Catacao and Colán are frequently subsumed into the extinct Tallán language as dialects, thus making the Catacaoan family synonymous with Tallán.[6][7][1] Loukota compares Catacaoan to the Culle language and the Sechura language but distinguishes them from all other families.[8]
Further reading
edit- Ramos Cabredo, J. (1950). Ensayo de un vocabulario de la lengua Tallán o Tallanca. Cuadernos de Estudio del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 3:11-55. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
References
edit- ^ a b c Urban, Matthias (2019). "The Tallán languages". Lost languages of the Peruvian north coast (PDF). Estudios Indiana. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag. pp. 73–96. ISBN 978-3-7861-2826-7. OCLC 1090545680.
- ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
- ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
- ^ Rivet, Paul. 1924. Langues Américaines III: Langues de l’Amérique du Sud et des Antilles. In: Antoine Meillet and Marcel Cohen (ed.), Les Langues du Monde, Volume 16, 639–712. Paris: Collection Linguistique.
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ^ Miyaoka, Osahito; Sakiyama, Osamu; Krauss, Michael E., eds. (2007). The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim. Oxford linguistics. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-926662-3. OCLC 71004259.
- ^ "Glottolog 5.1 - Tallán". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1949). "Sur quelques langues inconnues de l'Amérique du Sud" (PDF). Lingua Posnaniensis (in French). 1: 53–82.
