Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The majority of Colombians speak Spanish (see also Colombian Spanish), but in total 90 languages are listed for Colombia in the Ethnologue database. The specific number of spoken languages varies slightly since some authors consider as different languages what others consider to be varieties or dialects of the same language.
Pages in category "Languages of Colombia" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Colombia Language Status Comments ISO 639-3 A'ingae, Cofán language: Severely endangered [1] con Achagua language: Severely endangered [1] aca Andoke language: Severely endangered [1] ano Aruaco language: Vulnerable [1] arh Awa Cuaiquer language: Critically endangered [1] kwi Baníwa do Içana language: Vulnerable [1] Also spoken in: Brazil ...
Most of Colombia's population descends from European immigration in the mid 16th to late 20th centuries. The greatest waves of European immigration to Colombia can generally be divided into three time periods: the 1820s-1850's, which brought hundreds of immigrants mainly from Spain, Italy, Germany (including Ashkenazi Jewish); the 1880s-to 1910s, which brought many immigrants from France ...
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Colombia: 85 4 89 1.25 47,673,568 560,866 885
The Caro and Cuervo Institute in Bogotá is the main institution in Colombia to promote the scholarly study of the language and literature of both Colombia and the rest of Spanish America. The educated speech of Bogotá, a generally conservative variety of Spanish, has high popular prestige among Spanish-speakers throughout the Americas.
Recently, the phylogenetic relationship between Chibchan languages, Lencan languages, and Misumalpan languages has been demonstrated, which suggests that these languages originated in a region near the south of the Mesoamerican area and therefore, Chibchan languages will have expanded from the north to Panama and northeast of Colombia ...