Tinigua language

Tinigua
Tiniguas
Native to Colombia
Region Meta Department, Colombia; Serranía de la Macarena, Colombia
Ethnicity 1[1]
Native speakers
1 (2013)[1]
Tiniguan
  • Tinigua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tit
Glottolog tini1245[2]

Tinigua (Tiniguas) is an endangered language isolate spoken in Colombia. As of 2000, Tinigua had only two remaining speakers, both male. They lived in Meta Department, between the Upper Guayabero and Yari rivers. In 2013, this count had been reduced to one.[3] Tinigua used to form a small language family with the now extinct Pamigua language.

References

  1. 1 2 Tinigua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tinigua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Tobal, Juan Pablo (21 February 2013). "El último Tinígua" (in Spanish). La Voz.

Further reading

  • Matthias Brenzinger (2007), Language diversity endangered, 181, of Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, Walter de Gruyter, p. 23, ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4, retrieved 2009-08-28
  • Christopher Moseley (2007), Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages, Routledge, p. 40, ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0, retrieved 2009-09-19


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