Seeptsa

Seeptsa, also written Seeptsá, is the native name of the language better known as Cholón, once spoken by the Cholón people of the Huallaga River valley in northern Peru. Together with the closely related Hibito tongue of the same area it forms the Hibito–Cholón, or Cholonan, family.

Franciscan missionaries were the first to write it down: a seventeenth-century Arte y Vocabulario has been lost, but Pedro de la Mata's eighteenth-century Arte de la Lengua Cholona survives, and Bishop Baltasar Martínez Compañón included a Cholón wordlist in the codex of Peruvian life he compiled between 1782 and 1785.

As mission settlements and the Quechua and Spanish languages advanced up the Huallaga valley in the colonial period, Cholón steadily lost ground, until the faith and daily life of its speakers were carried on in other languages.