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The Chibchan languages (also known as Chibchano) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian Area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
The Xincan family was once included in Macro-Chibchan, but this is now doubtful. Constenla (2005) calls this proposed phylum Lenmichí (Lencan–Misumalpan–Chibchan) and provides 85 cognate sets which exhibit regular sound correspondences among the three families.
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The Muysca language is part of the Chibcha linguistic family, which in turn belongs to the macro-Chibchan group. The Chibcha linguistic family includes several indigenous languages of Central America and Northwestern South America.
Pre-contact distribution of North American language families north of Mexico The indigenous languages of Mexico that have more than 100,000 speakers The Chibchan languages. This is a list of different language classification proposals developed for the Indigenous languages of the Americas or Amerindian languages. The article is divided into ...
Arhuaco, commonly known as Ikʉ (Arhuaco: Ikʉ), is an Indigenous American language of the Chibchan language family, spoken in South America by the Arhuaco people. [3] There are 8000 speakers, all in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia, 90% of whom are monolingual. [3] Literacy is 1 to 5% in their native language.
This article is a list of language families. ... Macro-Chibchan or Hokan: Misumalpan: 5 709,000 North America: Macro-Chibchan: Iroquoian: 9 14,543 North America ...
The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family, also called Muysca and Mosca. [3] They were encountered by conquistadors dispatched by the Spanish Empire in 1537 at the time of the conquest.