Coconucan language
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Barbacoan language spoken in Colombia
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| Coconuco | |
|---|---|
| Namrrik | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Cauca Department |
| Ethnicity | Guambiano, Totoró |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2008)[1] |
Barbacoan
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:gum – Guambianottk – Totoró |
| Glottolog | coco1262 |
Coconuco is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, recently extinct Totoró, and the long-extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.
Totoró is now extinct; it had 4 speakers in 1998 out of an ethnic population of 4,000. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.
Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious Paezan language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).
References
[edit ]- ^ Guambiano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Totoró at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 2.
Further reading
[edit ]- Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. 2004. The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
- Branks, Judith; Sánchez, Juan Bautista. 1978. The drama of life: A study of life cycle customs among the Guambiano, Colombia, South America (pp xii, 107). Summer Institute of Linguistics Museum of Anthropology Publication (No. 4). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics Museum of Anthropology.
- Vásquez de Ruiz, Beatriz. 2000. Guambiano: Algunos Aspectos sobre Morfología Nominal. In González de Pérez, María Stella and Rodríguez de Montes, María Luisa (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva, 155-168. Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
- Curnow, Timothy Jowan, & Liddicoat, Anthony J. 1998. The Barbacoan Languages of Colombia and Ecuador, Anthropological Linguistics, 40:3:384–408.
- Fabre, Alain. 2005. Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: Guambiano[1]