Coconuco | |
---|---|
Namrrik | |
Native to | Colombia |
Region | Cauca Department |
Ethnicity | Guambiano (Misak) |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2008) [1] |
Barbacoan
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:
gum – Guambiano
ttk – Totoró |
Glottolog |
coco1262 |
Coconuco, also known as Coconucan, Guambiano and Misak, is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.
Totoró may be 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).
The Guambiano inventory is as follows (Curnow & Liddicoat 1998:386).
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | ə | |
Back | a |
Bilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||
Plosive | p | t | k | ||
Affricate | ts | tʂ | tʃ | ||
Fricative | s | ʂ | ʃ | ||
Liquid | r, l | ʎ | |||
Semivowel | w | j |
Coconuco | |
---|---|
Namrrik | |
Native to | Colombia |
Region | Cauca Department |
Ethnicity | Guambiano (Misak) |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2008) [1] |
Barbacoan
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:
gum – Guambiano
ttk – Totoró |
Glottolog |
coco1262 |
Coconuco, also known as Coconucan, Guambiano and Misak, is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.
Totoró may be 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).
The Guambiano inventory is as follows (Curnow & Liddicoat 1998:386).
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | ə | |
Back | a |
Bilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||
Plosive | p | t | k | ||
Affricate | ts | tʂ | tʃ | ||
Fricative | s | ʂ | ʃ | ||
Liquid | r, l | ʎ | |||
Semivowel | w | j |