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| Coconuco | |
|---|---|
| Namrrik | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Cauca Department |
| Ethnicity | Guambiano (Misak) |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2008)[1] |
Barbacoan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:gum – Guambianottk – Totoró |
| Glottolog | coco1262 |
Coconuco, also known asCoconucan,Guambiano,Misak, andNam Trik, is adialect cluster ofColombia spoken by theGuambiano 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 spuriousPaezan 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 |
| English | Spanish | Guambiano | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| One | Uno | Kan | [2] |
| Two | Dos | Pa | |
| Three | Tres | Pyn | |
| Dog | Perro | Wera | |
| Man | Hombre | Myk | |
| Moon | Luna | Pyl | |
| Stone | Pierre | Xuk | |
| Sun | Sol | Pych | |
| Water | Agua | Pi | |
| Woman | Mujer | Ixuk |