Catacao dialect

Catacao
Katakao
Native toPeru
RegionPiura Region
EthnicityCatacáos
Extinctby 1864
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qrv
Glottologcata1293
Map of Catacaoan languages. Catacao is at the bottom of the yellow area.

Catacao is an extinct dialect of Tallán, a language isolate once spoken in the Department of Piura in Peru. It is attested solely from a wordlist recorded by Bishop of Trujillo Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón in the 1780s.

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