Cholón, also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a recently extinct language of Peru.

Phonology

Due to the amateur Spanish pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling

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s used to transcribe Cholon, its sound inventory is uncertain. The following is an attempt at interpreting them (Adelaar 2004:464).

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative		s	ʃ	h
Approximant	w	l	ʎ, j

The vowels appeared to have been similar to Spanish [a e i o u].

Grammar

Cholon distinguishes masculine and feminine grammatical gender

Grammatical gender

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 in the second person

Second person

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. That is, one used different forms for "you" depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman:

katsok	'house'
aktsok	'my house'
miktsok	'your house' (speaking to a man)
piktsok	'your house' (speaking to a woman)
intʃamma	'what did you say?' (speaking to a man)
intʃampa	'what did you say?' (speaking to a woman)