Uwa language

There are half a dozen known varieties. Communication between modern varieties can be difficult, so they are considered distinct languages.

Adelaar (2004) lists the living

• central dialects Cobaría and Tegría on the northern slopes of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy,
• a western group near Agua Blanca in the departments of Santander and Norte de Santander,
• an eastern group at a place called Barro Negro in the lowlands of Arauca and Casanare,
• and the extinct dialect Sínsiga near Chita, Boyacá.

Umaña (2012) lists Cobaría, Tegría, Agua Blanca, Barro Negro.

Berich lists the dialects Cobaría; Agua Blanca (= Uncasía, Tamarana, Sta Marta); Rinconada, Tegría, Bócota, & Báchira

Cassani lists Sínsiga, Tegría, Unkasía (= Margua), Pedraza, Manare, Dobokubí (= Motilón)

Osborn (1989) lists

• Bethuwa (= Pedraza, extinct),
• Rikuwa (Dukarúa, = Agua Blanca),
• Tagrinuwa (Tegría),
• Kubaruwa (Cobaría),
• Kaibaká (= Bókota),
• Yithkaya (= San Miguel / Barro Negro),
• Bahiyakuwa (= Sínsiga),
• Biribirá,
• and Ruba,

the latter all extinct

Fabre (2005) lists:

• Bontoca (perhaps the same as the Bókota = Kaibaká cited in Osborn), of the mountains of Guican
• Cobaría, along the Cobaría River
• Pedraza or Bethuwa [= Angosturas?], along the Venezuelan border; extinct
• Sínsiga, in the Guican mountains, recorded from Chita, Boyaca in 1871
• Tegría or Tagrinuwa, along the Cobaría River
• Unkasia, along the Chitiga and Marga rivers (Telban 1988)

Additional names in Loukotka are Manare and Uncasica (presumably a spelling variant of Unkasía/Uncacía), as well as Morcote, of which nothing is known. Manare, at the source of the Casanare, is Eastern Tunebo.

• uwacolombia.org