Coconuco, also known as Guambiano and Misak, is a
dialect cluster of
Colombia spoken by the
Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.
Totoró may be extinct; it had 4 speakers in 1998 out of an ethnic population of 4,000. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.
Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious
Paezan Paezan (also Páesan, Paezano, Interandine) may be any of several hypothetical or obsolete language-family proposals of Colombia and Ecuador named after the Paez language.
Proposals
Currently, Páez (Nasa Yuwe) is best considered either a langu ...
language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).
Phonology
The Guambiano inventory is as follows (Curnow & Liddicoat 1998:386).
References
Further reading
* Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. 2004. ''The languages of the Andes''. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
* Branks, Judith; Sánchez, Juan Bautista. 1978. ''The drama of life: A study of life cycle customs among the Guambiano, Colombia, South America'' (pp xii, 107). Summer Institute of Linguistics Museum of Anthropology Publication (No. 4). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics Museum of Anthropology.
* Curnow, Timothy Jowan, & Liddicoat, Anthony J. 1998. ''The Barbacoan Languages of Colombia and Ecuador'', Anthropological Linguistics, 40:3:384–408.
* Fabre, Alain. 2005. ''Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: Guambiano
{{Languages of Colombia
Barbacoan languages
Languages of Colombia
Cauca Department