Chibchan


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Chib·chan

(chĭb′chən)
n.
1. A member of any of various widely scattered Indian peoples of Colombia and Central America.
2. A language family comprising the languages spoken by these peoples.
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Chibchan

(ˈtʃɪbtʃən)
n
(Languages) a family of Indian languages found in Colombia and elsewhere in South America
adj
(Languages) belonging or relating to this family of languages
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Chib•chan

(ˈtʃɪb tʃən)

n.
a family of American Indian languages, varying in number according to the system of classification, spoken or formerly spoken in Central America and W Colombia.
[1905–10]
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The following Native American Chibchan populations were analyzed: Bribri (n= 47), Cabecar (n= 27), Maleku (n= 16), Guaymi (n= 30) and Huetar (n= 48).
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Chibchan languages show heterogeneous morphosyntactic strategies for person indexing: whereas some languages show synthetic structures, others have more analytic strategies, yet others have a mix of the two.
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She points out that several features of the Amazonian languages extend beyond this area into what she terms the Circum-Amazonian region, which includes, for example, the Chibchan sphere in the Intermediate Area, and the Circum-Caribbean.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The Languages of the Amazon
The modern languages of Panama include Spanish, Creole, and Amerindian languages affiliated with two language families, Chibchan and Choco (Fig.
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The CLC group unearthed pottery fragments and other artifacts belonging to the native Chibchan people and encountered large stone spheres, some up to five feet in diameter, which were carved between 250 B.C.
An archeological field study trip led by Scott Palumbo, a College of Lake County (Ill.) anthropology instructor, recently took 15 students to Bolas, Costa Rica, an area considered one of the most important pre-Columbian sites in southern Central America
of Hawaii) and Grondona (Eastern Michigan U.) have brought together 11 contributions pertaining to the history, classification, and endangerment of the indigenous languages of South America as well as typological characteristics, phonetics and phonology, and some specifics of Chibchan languages, the Cariban family, Tupian, Quechuan and Aymaran, and languages of the Chaco and southern cone.
The indigenous languages of South America; a comprehensive guide
WOLVERHAMPTON: 5.40 Chibchan, 6.10 Eyes On, 6.40 Ezra Church, 7.10 Mon Visage, 7.40 Heart Of Hearts, 8.10 Mongoose Alert, 8.40 Elhamri, 9.10 Aultcharn.
Thomas can prove doubters wrong; Saraband
NAOMI MATTHEW: 5.40 Chibchan, 6.10 Eyes On, 6.40 Ezra Church, 7.10 Mon Visage, 7.40 Heart Of Hearts, 8.10 Mongoose Alert, 8.40 Elhamri, 9.10 Aultcharn.
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