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Barbacoan languages

Index Barbacoan languages

Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador. [1]

24 relations: Amerind languages, Awa Pit language, Čestmír Loukotka, Barbacoan languages, Cañari–Puruhá languages, Caranqui language, Caro and Cuervo Institute, Cha'palaa language, Chimuan languages, Coconucan language, Colombia, Dialect, Ecuador, Endangered language, Extinct language, Language family, Language isolate, Macro-Chibchan languages, Macro-Paesan languages, Muellama language, Paezan languages, Pasto language, Páez language, Tsafiki language.

Amerind languages

Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen.

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Awa Pit language

Awa or Awa pit, also known as Cuaiquer, is a Barbacoan language spoken by the Awa-Kwaiker people, who inhabit territory straddling northern Ecuador and southern Colombia (the language is sometimes also referred to as Coaiquer, Quaiquer, or Kwaiker in Colombia, and as Awapit in Ecuador).

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Čestmír Loukotka

Čestmír Loukotka (&ndash) was a Czechoslovak linguist.

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Barbacoan languages

Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador.

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Cañari–Puruhá languages

Cañari (Cañar, Kanyari) and Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) are two poorly attested extinct languages of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador which are difficult to classify.

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Caranqui language

Caranqui, or Cara (Kara), is an extinct, probably Barbacoan language of Ecuador.

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Caro and Cuervo Institute

The Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Caro and Cuervo Institute) is an educative center specialized in Spanish literature, philology and linguistics, oriented to research and promotion of the reading habits in Colombia.

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Cha'palaa language

Cha'palaa (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca.

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Chimuan languages

Chimuan (also Chimúan) or Yuncan is a hypothetical small extinct language family of northern Peru and Ecuador (inter-Andean valley).

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Coconucan language

Coconuco also known as Guambiano is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Endangered language

An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language.

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Extinct language

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Language isolate

A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language.

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Macro-Chibchan languages

Macro-Chibchan is a proposed grouping of the languages of the Lencan, Misumalpan, & Chibchan families into a single large phylum (macrofamily).

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Macro-Paesan languages

Macro-Paesan (also spelled Macro-Paezan) is a proposal linking several small families and language isolates of northwest South America.

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Muellama language

Muellama (Muellamués) is an extinct Barbacoan language of Colombia.

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Paezan languages

Paezan (also Páesan, Paezano, Interandine) may be any of several hypothetical or obsolete language-family proposals of Colombia and Ecuador named after the Paez language.

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Pasto language

Pasto is a purported Barbacoan language that was spoken by indigenous people of Pasto, Colombia and Carchi Province, Ecuador.

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Páez language

Páez (also Paez, Paes; the autonym Nasa Yuwe 'Nasa language' is becoming increasingly used) is a language of Colombia, spoken by the Páez people.

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Tsafiki language

Tsafiki, also known as Tsachila or Colorado, is a Barbacoan language spoken in Ecuador by c. 2000 ethnic Tsáchila people.

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Awan language, Awan languages, Barbacoan, Barbacoan language, Barbacoana, Barbacoano, Barbakoan, Barbakoan languages, Barbakóan, Barbakóan languages.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbacoan_languages

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