Kogi (Cogui), or Kagaba (Cágaba) ( kog, Kággaba), is a

Chibchan language The Chibchan languages (also Chibchan, Chibchano) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian Area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa ...

of Colombia. The

Kogi people The Kogi ( ), or Cogui, or Kágaba, meaning " jaguar" in the Kogi language, are an indigenous group that resides in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia. Their culture has continued since the Pre-Columbian era. L ...

are almost entirely monolingual, and maintain the only unconquered

Andean civilization The Andean civilizations were complex societies of many cultures and peoples mainly developed in the river valleys of the coastal deserts of Peru. They stretched from the Andes of southern Colombia southward down the Andes to Chile and northw ...

Phonology

* /e, ẽ/ can also be heard as �, ɛ̃when in unstressed syllables. * Affricate sounds s, dz, tʃ, dʒare heard when sibilant sounds /s, z, ʃ, ʒ/ precede /n/. If /t, d/ precede /i/ then they are realized as affricates ʃ, dʒ * /n/ before /i/ may be realized as a palatal �

References

Languages of Colombia Chibchan languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub