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Andaqui (or Andaki) is an extinct language from the southern highlands of
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. It has been linked to the Paezan or
Barbacoan languages Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador. Genealogical relations The Barbacoan languages may be related to the Páez language. Barbacoan is often connected with the Paezan language ...
, but no connections have been demonstrated. It was spoken by the Andaqui people of
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.


Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with Paez,
Chibcha The Muisca (also called the Chibcha) are indigenous peoples in Colombia and were a Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, Pre-Columbian culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish colonizati ...
(also proposed by Rivet 1924Rivet, Paul. 1924. La langue Andakí. ''Journal de la Société des Américanistes'', 16:99-110.), and Tinigua-Pamigua due to contact.


Varieties

Other unattested varieties possibly related to Andaqui that are listed by Loukotka (1968): * Timaná – once spoken on the
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and Guarapas River around the city of Timaná. * Yalcon / Cambi – once spoken between the
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and La Plata River.


Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items. :


See also

* Macro-Paesan languages


Further reading

*Coronas Urzúa, G. (1994). Análisis Fonológico de la lengua Andaquí. Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 20:69-98. *Coronas Urzúa, G. (1995). El lexico de la lengua andaquí. Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 21:79-113.


References


External links


El léxico de la lengua AndaquíPDF
Indigenous languages of South America Extinct languages of South America Language isolates of South America Macro-Paesan languages {{na-lang-stub