Coconuco language
| Coconuco | |
|---|---|
| Nam Trik | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Cauca Department |
| Ethnicity | Guambiano, Totoró |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2008) |
Barbacoan
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| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:gum – Guambianottk – Totoró |
| Glottolog | coco1262 |
| Linguasphere | 81-GAA |
Coconuco is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, Totoró, and the long-extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.
Totoró had 76 speakers in 2019 out of an ethnic population of 4,000 in 1998. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.
Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious Paezan language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).