Guanche language

E170965

Guanche language was the now-extinct indigenous Berber-related language once spoken by the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands before Spanish colonization.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Guanche language canonical 4

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
extinct language
language
alternativeName Guanche
Guancho
Insular Tamazight
classificationStatus poorly attested
continent Africa (insular margin)
country Spain
documentedAs anthroponyms
toponymic records
word lists
documentedBy Spanish chroniclers
missionaries
era before Spanish colonization of the Canary Islands
ethnicGroup Guanche people
extinction 17th century
glottologCode guan1277
hasLoanwordsIn Canarian Spanish
toponyms of the Canary Islands
hasMorphologicalFeature Berber-like nominal morphology (reconstructed)
hasPhonologicalFeature presence of emphatic consonants (reconstructed)
influencedBy contact with early Spanish
languageCodeISO3 gnc
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages
lexicalSimilarity Berber languages of North Africa
region Canary Islands
replacedBy Canarian Spanish
Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
sourceOfWord "Adeje"
Arona
surface form: "Arona"

Alegranza
surface form: "Gáldar"

"Tamarán"
"Tegueste"
Teguise
surface form: "Teguise"

Telde
surface form: "Telde"

Tenerife
surface form: "Tenerife"

"gofio"
"tabaiba"
"tajinaste"
"teide"
spokenIn El Hierro
Fuerteventura
Gran Canaria
La Gomera
La Palma
Lanzarote
Tenerife
status extinct
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

no native writing system attested

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guanche people language Guanche language
Achamán languageContext Guanche language
Chaxiraxi languageContext Guanche language
menceyato languageUsed Guanche language