Muysccubun (meaning ‘people’s language’ or ‘language of the people’)

E646984

Muysccubun is the indigenous language historically spoken by the Muisca people of the Colombian Andes, belonging to the Chibchan language family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chibchan language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Chibcha de Bogotá NERFINISHED
Muisca language NERFINISHED
Muysca NERFINISHED
associatedWith Muisca Confederation NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Duit
Lache NERFINISHED
U’wa language NERFINISHED
country Colombia
culturalRole marker of Muisca identity
vehicle of Muisca cosmology
documentedBy Spanish missionaries
colonial-era grammarians
ethnicGroup Muisca NERFINISHED
hasLoanwordsIn Colombian Spanish NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reconstructed / debated)
simple consonant inventory
historicalRegion Altiplano Cundiboyacense NERFINISHED
Boyacá NERFINISHED
Cundinamarca NERFINISHED
Santander Department NERFINISHED
historicalWritingSystem Spanish-based orthography
influencedToponym Bacatá NERFINISHED
Bogotá NERFINISHED
Chía NERFINISHED
Zipaquirá NERFINISHED
languageCodeISO639-3 chb
languageFamily Chibchan languages NERFINISHED
lexicalInfluenceOn Colombian Spanish toponyms
nameMeaning language of the people
people’s language
region Colombian Andes NERFINISHED
revitalizationEffortsIn Bogotá NERFINISHED
Boyacá NERFINISHED
Cundinamarca NERFINISHED
spokenBy Muisca people NERFINISHED
spokenUntil colonial period
status formerly considered extinct
revitalized language
subfamily Eastern Chibchan languages NERFINISHED
timeDepth pre-Columbian era
typology agglutinative language
usedIn Muisca oral tradition
Muisca religion NERFINISHED
Muisca rituals
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Muysccubun endonym Muysccubun (meaning ‘people’s language’ or ‘language of the people’)