Distribution of Sechura and Catacaoan in the Piura region.
Sechura–Catacao is a proposed connection between the small Catacaoan language family of Peru and the language isolate Sechura (Sek). The languages are extremely poorly known, but Kaufman (1990) finds the connection convincing, Campbell (2012) persuasive.[2]
External relationships
Kaufman (1994: 64) groups Leco and Sechura–Catacao together as part of a proposed Macro-Lecoan family.[1]
Tovar (1961),[3] partly based on Schmidt (1926),[4] classifies Sechura–Catacao together with the Chimuan languages in his Yunga–Puruhá family.
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.[5]
gloss
Sechura
Catacao
Colan
man
rekla
aszat
yatadlam
water
xoto
yup
yúp
fire
morot
guanararak
hayur
sun
yóro
nap
turi nap
moon
ñangru
nam
nag
bird
yaibab
yeya
yaiau
fish
xuma
l'as
l'as
head
te-uma
foot
lava
Comparative word list of Sechura, Colan, and Catacao from Loukotka (1949):[6]
^ abKaufman, Terrence. 1994. The native languages of South America. In: Christopher Moseley and R. E. Asher (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages, 59–93. London: Routledge.
^Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN978-3-11-025513-3.
^Tovar, Antonio (1961). Catálogo de las lenguas de América del Sur, pp. 162-165. Buenos Aires.
^Schmidt, Wilhelm (1926). Die Sprachfamilien und Sprachenkreise der Erde, p. 214. Heidelberg.
^Loukotka, Čestmír. 1949. Sur Quelques Langues Inconnues de l'Amerique du Sud. Lingua Posnaniensis I: 53-82.
^Buchwald, Otto von. 1919. Migraciones sudamericanas. Boletín de la sociedad ecuatoriana de estudios historicos, vol 1, pp. 227-239. Quito.
Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more". In David L. Payne (ed.). Amazonian Linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press.