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The Tairona culture and the U'wa, related to the Muisca culture, speak similar languages, which encouraged trade. The Muisca used a form of hieroglyphs for numbers. Many Chibcha words were absorbed or "loaned" into Colombian Spanish: Geography: Many names of localities and regions were kept.
fulano muysca person cha male cho good guy COP fulano muysca cha cho guy fulano person male good COP So-and-so is a good male (1b) (Lugo, 1619:3r) muysca person fuhucha woman cho good muysca fuhucha cho person woman good Good woman Adjective The adjective muysca does not agree in gender or number with the noun. According to its form, it can be basic, derived or periphrastic. The periphrastic ...
The Spanish conquest of New Granada refers to the conquest between 1525 and 1540 by the Spanish monarchy of the Chibcha language-speaking nations of modern-day Colombia and Panama, mainly the Muisca and Tairona that inhabited present-day Colombia, beginning the Spanish colonization of the Americas. [3]
Chibcha / Muisca / Mosca – extinct language once spoken on the upper plateau of Bogotá and Tunja, department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. Duit dialect – once spoken on the Tunja River and Tundama River. Tunebo / Tame – language now spoken by many tribes living in the area east of the Chibcha tribe. Dialects:
In the Chibcha language spoken by the Muisca people, the word Güechá has a number of possible meanings. The syllable güe may mean "people", "I killed", "house" or "place". ". The syllable chá may mean "man" or "ma
Triana was interested in the former inhabitants of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense where he was born and studied the history of the Muisca (also called "Chibcha", as the language they speak) and in 1922 he published his mayor work La Civilización Chibcha Other works are El jeroglífico Chibcha and Las leyendas Chibchas.
Their Chimila language is part of the Chibcha language family, of which there were estimated to be around 1000 speakers in 1998. [1] At the time of the Spanish Conquest the Ariguaní River valley was the strategic centre of their territory. [1] On the Serranía del Perijá mountains the Yukpas were also part of the Chimila confederation of ...
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.