Colán dialect

Colán
Kolán
Native toPeru
RegionPiura Region
EthnicityColánes
Extinctby 1864
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qsb
Glottologcola1238
Map of all Catacaoan languages, with Colan in the middle of the yellow area

Colán (Kolán) is an extinct dialect of Tallán, a language isolate of Peru. It is known solely from a wordlist collected in the 1780s by Bishop of Trujillo Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón. It may be related to the nearby Sechura language, but this is not confirmed.

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