Tsafiki

E741179

Tsafiki is the indigenous language spoken by the Tsáchila people of Ecuador, belonging to the Barbacoan language family.

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Label Occurrences
Tsafiki canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Barbacoan language
indigenous language
language
alternativeName Colorado NERFINISHED
Tsafiqui NERFINISHED
Tsáchila NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroArea South America NERFINISHED
country Ecuador
endangeredStatusSource UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Tsáchila NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Tsáchila identity
vehicle of Tsáchila oral history
hasDomain agricultural knowledge
oral tradition
ritual practices
traditional medicine knowledge
hasGlottocode tsaf1235
hasGrammaticalFeature case marking on nouns
evidentiality distinctions
postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasLanguageCode cof
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
tone language
hasNumberOfSpeakers several thousand
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive tone
nasal vowels
oral vowels
simple consonant inventory
hasStandardizedOrthography yes
ISO639-3Code cof
isSubjectOf anthropological linguistics research
descriptive grammars
phonological studies
languageFamily Barbacoan NERFINISHED
languageStatus vulnerable
locatedNear Andean foothills of western Ecuador
name Tsafiki NERFINISHED
region Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province NERFINISHED
spokenBy Tsáchila people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ecuador NERFINISHED
subfamily South Barbacoan NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Spanish
usedFor daily communication within Tsáchila communities
usedInEducation local bilingual education programs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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