The moribund or extinct Hibito-Cholon, or Cholonan, languages are a proposed and widely accepted family linking two languages of Peru, Hibito and Cholon. The family was believed to have gone extinct in the 1990s, but in 2021 a semispeaker of Cholon, Martha Perez Valderrama, was identified as its only known living speaker. The family may also be related to the extinct Culle and Chirino languages and perhaps to the language of the Chachapoya, though the data for all of these is poor; this broader hypothetical grouping has been called the Cholonoid languages.
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Speaker CountOne semispeaker of Cholon, Martha Perez Valderrama, identified in 2021; the family had been believed extinct since the 1990s before then. Proto-Language StatusProposed and widely accepted family linking Hibito and Cholon, though data on both languages is poor; a broader Cholonoid grouping adding the extinct Culle and Chirino languages, and possibly Chachapoya, has been suggested but rests on data too poor to confirm. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Hibito-Cholon Languages
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The moribund or extinct Híbito-Cholón or Cholónan languages form a proposed and widely accepted language family that links two languages of Peru, Hibito and Cholón.
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They may also be related to the extinct Culle and Chirino languages, and perhaps to the language of the Chachapoya, but the data for all of these languages is poor. This hypothetical group of languages has been termed the Cholonoid languages.
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This family was believed have gone extinct in the 1990s, but in 2021 a semispeaker was identified; she is Martha Pérez Valderrama, and she is currently the only known speaker of this language family (specifically from the Cholón).
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