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Chibcha, Mosca, Muisca, [4] Muysca (*/ˈmɨska/ *[ˈmʷɨska] [5]), or Muysca de Bogotá [6] is a language spoken by the Muisca people of the Muisca Confederation, one of the many indigenous cultures of the Americas.
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:
The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an Indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family , also called Muysca and Mosca . [ 3 ]
[1] [2] The name of the department of Cundinamarca is an exception, it is inferred the name comes not from Chibcha, yet from Quechua, meaning condor's nest. [3] Chibcha language toponyms outside the Muisca Confederation territories, such as the Guane, Lache, U'wa or Sutagao and Spanish language toponyms within the Muisca Confederation are not ...
The first sonnet in Chibcha, throughout the book called Chibcha and Muisca, begins with: [8] MVγ≈ca micâta cubun cħoqγ vca≈ûca. The sonnets praise the person Bernardo de Lugo, suggesting they were written by a friendly colleague. The only reference in the text to the author is chicubun, which means "our language". [9]
Modern anthropologists, such as Jorge Gamboa Mendoza, attribute the present-day knowledge about the confederation and its organization more to a reflection by Spanish chroniclers who predominantly wrote about it a century or more after the Muisca were conquered and proposed the idea of a loose collection of different people with slightly ...
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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.