Kogi language
Kogi (Cogui), or Kagaba (Cágaba), is a Chibchan language of Colombia. The Kogi people are almost entirely monolingual, and maintain the only unconquered Andean civilization.
| Kogi | |
|---|---|
| Kággaba | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
| Ethnicity | Kogi |
Native speakers | 9,900 (2004)[1] nearly all monolingual |
Chibchan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kog |
| Glottolog | cogu1240[2] |
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open | a ã |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | geminated | plain | geminated | plain | geminated | |||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | t: | k | k: | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | b: | d | d: | g | g: | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | x | h | |||||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||
References
- Kogi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cogui". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
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