Quimbaya language
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| Quimbaya | |
|---|---|
| Kimbaya | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Ethnicity | Quimbaya |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
unclassified (Chocoan?) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cca Cauca (retired) |
qge | |
| Glottolog | cauc1241 Cauca (retired) |
 Map of the Quimbaya language | |
Quimbaya (Kimbaya) is a poorly attested, extinct language of Colombia. It was spoken by the Quimbaya.[1] Only 10 words can be possibly attributed to Quimbaya.[2][3] This is insufficient to establish Quimbaya as a distinct language.
Vocabulary
[edit source]A few words of the Quimbaya language were recorded in Adolf Bastian's Die Culturländer des alten America, which are presented below.[4]: 243, note 1 [5] Adelaar and Muysken (2004) speculate about the possibility of the wordlist being from Chocoan-speaking immigrants to the area.
| Gloss | Quimbaya |
|---|---|
| egg | terre |
| hen | terremu |
| rooster | termujina |
| toucan | mungua-puluma |
| deer | vigi |
| dogwood | carmaná |
| how are you | chiri valicha |
| come here | huachi minangi |
References
[edit source]- ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald (September 2015). "Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices". Language. 91 (3): s1–s188. doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0049. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0029-1D58-0. ISSN 1535-0665.
- ↑ "Bericht über die Sprache". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 8: 359–377. 1876. ISSN 0044-2666.
- ↑ Bastian, Adolf (1878). Die Culturländer des alten America (in German). Weidmann.
- ↑ Ortiz, Sergio Elías (1965), Prehistoria Tomo 3: Lenguas y Dialectos Indígenas de Colombia, Historia Extensa de Colombia, vol. I, Bogotá: Ediciones Lerner, pp. 363–376
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