The extinct Hibito–Cholón or Cholónan languages form a proposed language family

Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...

 that links two languages of Peru, Hibito

Hibito language

Hibito is an extinct language of Peru. It, together with Cholón, also extinct, constituted the Hibito-Cholon family....

 and Cholón

Cholon language

Cholón, also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a recently extinct language of Peru.- Phonology :Due to the amateur Spanish pronunciation spellings used to transcribe Cholon, its sound inventory is uncertain...

, extinct as of 2000. They may also be related to the extinct Culle language

Culle language

Culle , also known as Ilinga , is a poorly attested extinct language of northern Peru. It is the original language of the regions of La Libertad, Cajabamba, and Pallasca...

, and perhaps to the language of the Chachapoya, but the data for all of these languages is poor.

Lexicon

Several basic Hibito and Cholon words appear to be related, though the data on both languages is poor. The following examples are given in the ad hoc orthography of the three sources we have on these languages:

	tree	water	daughter	son
Cholón	mech / meš	cot / quõt / köta	ñu / -ñu	pul / -pul
Hibito	mixs / mitš	cachi / otšj	ñoo	pool