Tairona language
| Tairona | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Colombia |
| Ethnicity | Tairona |
| Extinct | (date missing) evolved into Damana |
Chibchan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Tairona is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia, part of the Arhuacan subgroup, ancestral to the modern-day Damana language[1] and formerly spoken by the Tairona.[2] It is reportedly used by the Kogi people as a ritual language.[3] It has also been proposed to be of other linguistic affiliations.[4]
References
- ↑ Constenla Umaña, Adolfo (2012-01-13), "Chibchan languages", in Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.), The Indigenous Languages of South America, DE GRUYTER, pp. 391–440, doi:10.1515/9783110258035.391, ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3, retrieved 2026-05-23
- ↑ Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of native America. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York Oxford: Oxford university press. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5.
- ↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary, eds. (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5
- ↑ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South American Indians". In Steward, Julian H. (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6: Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians. United States Government Printing Office. p. 205.