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Quingnam
Yunga Pescadora?
Native to	Peru
Region	north-central coast
Ethnicity	Chimú
Extinct	16th century?
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	quig1235
Extent of Quingnam/Pescadora before replacement by Spanish

TheQuingnam language was apre-Columbian language that was spoken by theChimú people, who lived in the former territories of theMochicas: an area north of theChicama Chao River Valley. At the height of Chimú conquests, the language was spoken extensively from theJequetepeque River in the north, to theCarabayllo (near present-dayLima) in the south.

Fishermen along the Chimú coast spoke a language calledLengua Pescadora (fisherman language) by Spanish missionaries, and disambiguated asYunga Pescadora by linguists; this may be the same as Quingnam. A letter found during excavations at Magdalena de Cao Viejo in theEl Brujo Archaeological Complex includes a list of decimal numerals which may be Quingnam or Pescadora, but they are notMochica.^[1]

The Quingnam language became extinct shortly after the arrival of theconquistadors. The core Chimú city,Chan Chan, was in the vicinity of the new Spanish city of Trujillo and became overwhelmed by it, with people needing to pick up the language of the conquerors for trade and survival.

Below are numerals from an early 17th-century manuscript found atMagdalena de Cao (Quilter et al. 2010,^[2] as transcribed by Urban 2019^[3]). Although the manuscript does not indicate which language the numerals belong to, Quingnam is assumed to be the most likely candidate based on location and other clues:^[3]

Numeral	Form
‘1’	chari
‘2’	marian
‘3’	apar
‘4’	tau
‘5’	himic (?)
‘6’	sut (?)
‘7’	canchen
‘8’	mata
‘9’	yucan
‘10’	bencor
‘21’	maribencor chari tayac
‘30’	apar bencor
‘100’	chari pachac
‘200’	mari pachac

The numeralstau (4),sut (6),canchen (7), andpachac (100) are loanwords from a variety ofQuechua II.^[3]

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