Arhuaco language

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The Arhuaco language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Arhuaco people in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region.

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Label Occurrences
Arhuaco language canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American language
Chibchan language
indigenous language
alternateName Bintucua NERFINISHED
Ika NERFINISHED
Ikʉ NERFINISHED
associatedReligion Arhuaco traditional religion NERFINISHED
associatedWith Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta indigenous cultures
belongsToMacroFamily Chibchan-Paezan (proposed)
closelyRelatedTo Damana language NERFINISHED
Kogi language NERFINISHED
Wiwas language NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Colombia
documentationIncludes grammatical descriptions
lexical wordlists
text collections
ethnicGroup Arhuaco NERFINISHED
glottocode arhu1242
hasAncestor Proto-Chibchan NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
tone or pitch accent distinctions (analyzed by some linguists)
hasSpeakerCommunity Arhuaco settlements in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
ISO639-3Code arh
languageFamily Chibchan NERFINISHED
primaryCountry Colombia NERFINISHED
region Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta NERFINISHED
spokenAlong Aracataca River NERFINISHED
Ariguaní River NERFINISHED
Badillo River NERFINISHED
Cesar River NERFINISHED
Chichicua River NERFINISHED
Don Diego River NERFINISHED
Fundación River
Guatapurí River NERFINISHED
spokenBy Arhuaco people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Colombia NERFINISHED
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta NERFINISHED
status endangered language
minority language
subfamily Arwako branch
usedFor daily communication within Arhuaco communities
oral tradition
traditional religious practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Chibchan languages languageFamilyOf Arhuaco language