Social:Hibito language

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Short description: Extinct Hibito-Cholon language of Peru
Hibito
Native toPeru
RegionBobonaje River valley
EthnicityHibito
Extinct1960s
Language codes
ISO 639-3hib
Glottologhibi1243[1]

Hibito (spelled variously Híbito, Hívito, Chibito, Ibito, Jibito, Xibita, Zibito)[2] is an extinct language of Peru. It, together with Cholón, constitute the Hibito-Cholon family. There were 500 speakers reported in 1850, but the language appears to have gone extinct around the 1960s.[3]

Loukotka (1968) reports that it was spoken along the Huamo River, just north of the Cholón area.[4]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Hibito". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hibi1243. 
  2. "Híbito". LINGUIST List. http://multitree.org/codes/hib.html. 
  3. Alexander-Bakkerus, Astrid (2005). Eighteenth-century Cholón. LOT. Utrecht: LOT. ISBN 978-90-76864-86-0. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2887508/view. 
  4. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk.