Muisca language
E646982
The Muisca language is an extinct Chibchan language once spoken by the Muisca people of the central highlands of present-day Colombia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chibcha language | 1 |
| Muisca language canonical | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chibchan language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Chibcha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mosca ⓘ Muysca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Muisca religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Colombia ⓘ |
| documentedBy | Spanish missionaries ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
colonial grammars
ⓘ
colonial vocabularies ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Muisca people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extinctionCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| geographicContext | Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | muys1238 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Muysc cubun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCorpus | limited colonial-era texts ⓘ |
| hasDescendant | revitalized Muisca (Muysccubun) varieties ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticStudy | subject of comparative Chibchan research ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (historically reconstructed)
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Spanish colonial period
ⓘ
pre-Columbian era ⓘ |
| influenced |
Colombian Spanish loanwords
ⓘ
toponymy of Boyacá ⓘ toponymy of Cundinamarca ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | chb ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Chibchan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lexicalDomain | rich agricultural vocabulary ⓘ |
| lexicalDomain | rich religious and cosmological vocabulary ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| nativeName | Muysccubun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Northern branch of Chibchan languages ⓘ |
| region |
Altiplano Cundiboyacense
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central highlands of Colombia ⓘ |
| revitalizationCommunity |
Muisca communities in Boyacá
ⓘ
Muisca communities in Cundinamarca ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | subject of contemporary revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| usedBy | Muisca Confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administration in the Muisca Confederation
ⓘ
trade in the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chibcha language