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The name of Bogotá corresponds to the Spanish pronunciation of the Chibcha Bacatá (or Muyquytá) which was the name of a neighboring settlement located between the modern towns of Funza and Cota. There are different opinions about the meaning of the word Muyquytá, the most accepted being that it means "walling of the farmland" in the Chibcha ...
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 educated speech of Bogotá, a generally conservative variety of Spanish, has high popular prestige among Spanish-speakers throughout the Americas. [3] The Colombian Academy of Language (Academia Colombiana de la Lengua) is the oldest Spanish language academy after Spain's Royal Spanish Academy; it was founded in 1871. [4]
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The phone occurs as a deaffricated pronunciation of /tʃ/ in some other dialects (most notably, Northern Mexican Spanish, informal Chilean Spanish, and some Caribbean and Andalusian accents). [14] Otherwise, /ʃ/ is a marginal phoneme that occurs only in loanwords or certain dialects; many speakers have difficulty with this sound, tending to ...
5 Pronunciation of "chévere"? 1 comment. 6 "The clearest Spanish"? 1 comment. 7 Slang Words. 1 comment. 8 Yeísmo, definition. 1 comment. 9 "Que" to introduce main ...
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
Simijaca (Spanish pronunciation:) is a town and municipality in the Ubaté Province, part of the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia.The town centre is located at an altitude of 2,559 metres (8,396 ft) on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at 136 kilometres (85 mi) from the capital Bogotá.