Chibchan

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Chibchan is a Native American language family of Central and northern South America, encompassing numerous indigenous languages spoken from Honduras to Colombia and Costa Rica.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chibchan canonical 5

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language family
language family
alternativeName Chibchan languages NERFINISHED
Macro-Chibchan NERFINISHED
continent North America
South America
geographicRange from Honduras to Colombia and Costa Rica
from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia
hasLinguisticFeature complex verbal morphology in many languages
rich system of noun classifiers in some languages
hasSubfamily Magdalena River Chibchan NERFINISHED
Paya–Chibchan NERFINISHED
Talamanca Chibchan NERFINISHED
Votic Chibchan NERFINISHED
includesLanguage Barí NERFINISHED
Boruca NERFINISHED
Bribri NERFINISHED
Buglere NERFINISHED
Cabécar NERFINISHED
Chánguena NERFINISHED
Cuna NERFINISHED
Damana NERFINISHED
Guatuso NERFINISHED
Guaymí NERFINISHED
Ika NERFINISHED
Kogi NERFINISHED
Kuna NERFINISHED
Maleku NERFINISHED
Ngäbere NERFINISHED
Pech NERFINISHED
Rama NERFINISHED
Teribe NERFINISHED
Tunebo NERFINISHED
languageFamilyBranchOf American indigenous languages
region Central America
northern South America
spokenBy indigenous peoples of Central America NERFINISHED
indigenous peoples of northern South America
spokenInCountry Belize NERFINISHED
Colombia NERFINISHED
Costa Rica NERFINISHED
Ecuador NERFINISHED
Honduras NERFINISHED
Nicaragua NERFINISHED
Panama NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
status many member languages are endangered
studiedInDiscipline anthropological linguistics
historical linguistics
writingSystem Latin script (for many member languages)

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

Muysccubun languageFamily Chibchan
Buglere languageFamily Chibchan
Buglere hasPhylum Chibchan
Dulegaya languageBranch Chibchan