Sechura language

Sechura language

Infobox Language
name = Sechura
states = Peru
region = Piura Region
familycolor = American
fam1 = Sechura-Catacao
extinct = late 19th Century?

The Sechura language, also known as Sek, is an extinct language (or possibly two languages) spoken in the Piura Region of Peru, near the port of Sechura. It appears to have become extinct by the beginning of the 20th Centurycite book
last=Adelaar
first=Willem F. H.
coauthors=Pieter C. Muysken
title=The Languages of the Andes
year=2004
publisher=Cambridge University Press
location=Cambridge
isbn=052136275X
pages=398-401] .

Classification

Sechura, along with its dialect or sister language Tallán are too poorly known to be definitively classified. Greenberg and Ruhlen place Sechura in the Northern branch of an Andean language family, along with the Catacaoan languages, the Culle language, the Leco language, and the Hibito-Cholon languages [citation
last1=Greenberg
first1=Joseph
authorlink1=Joseph Greenberg
last2 =Ruhlen
first2 =Merritt
author2-link =Merritt Ruhlen
title=An Amerind Etymological Dictionary
url=http://www.merrittruhlen.com/files/AED5.pdf
format=pdf
accessdate=2008-06-27
edition=12
date=2007-09-04
publisher=Dept. of Anthropological Sciences Stanford University
location=Stanford] . While Greenberg's Amerind proposal has not been accepted, Kaufman notes that a connection between Sechura and the Catacaoan languages is likely and is supported by lexical evidence [Citation
last = Kaufman
first =Terrence
year = 1990
contribution = Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more
editor-last = Payne
editor-first = D.L.
title = Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages
place = Austin
publisher = University of Texas Press
pages = 13-67
isbn = 0-292-70414-3] .

Dialects/Varieties

It is unclear whether or not the two varieties classed together as Sechura (Sechura and Tallán) are merely dialects of the same language. Rivet groups the two together, calling them the Sek language, when he compares them to the Catacaoan languages [cite journal
last = Rivet
first = Paul
year = 1949
title = Les langues de l'ancien diocèse de Trujillo
journal = Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris
volume = 38
pages = 1-51
location = Paris
language = French] . In comparing wordlists from Sechura and Tallán, Torero finds six likely cognates between the two [cite journal
last = Torero Fernández de Córdova
first = Alfredo A.
year = 1986
title = Deslindes lingüísticos en la costa norte peruana
journal = Revista Andina
volume = 4
pages = 523-48
publisher = Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas
location = Cuzco
language = Spanish] :

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