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Mochica (also Yunga, Yunca, Chimú, Muchic, Mochika, Muchik, Chimu) is a Chimuan language formerly spoken along the northwest coast of Peru and in an inland village. First documented in 1607, the language was widely spoken in the area during the 17th and early 18th century. By the end of the 19th century the language was dying out and spoken only by a few people in the village of Etén in Chiclayo. It died out as a spoken language around 1920, but certain words and phrases continued to be used up until the 1960s.〔 〕 It is a best known as the supposed language of the Moche culture, as well as the Chimú culture/Chimor. ==Linguistic category== Mochica is typologically different from the other main languages on the west coast of South America, namely Quechua, Aymara, and Mapudungun. Further, it contains rare features such as: * a case system in which cases are built on each other in a linear sequence; for example, the ablative suffix is added to the locative, which in turn is added to an oblique case form; * all nouns have two stems, possessed and non-possessed; * an agentive case suffix used mainly for the agent in passive clauses; and * a verbal system in which all finite forms are formed with the copula. Mochica appears to be a language isolate with no clear links to any other American Indian language. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mochica language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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