Andaqui language

Not to be confused with the Andoque language, also of Colombia.

Andaqui
Jirara
Native to	Colombia
Region	southern highlands
Ethnicity	248 Andaqui people (2018 census) [1]
Extinct	by 1970s? [2]
Language family	Language isolate [3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ana
Glottolog	anda1286

Andaqui (or Andaki) is an extinct language from the southern highlands of Colombia. It has been linked to the Paezan or Barbacoan languages, but no connections have been demonstrated. It was spoken by the Andaqui people of Colombia. The language may still be spoken. ^[1]

Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with Paez, Chibcha (also proposed by Rivet 1924 ^[4] ), and Tinigua-Pamigua due to contact. ^[5]

Varieties

Other unattested varieties possibly related to Andaqui that are listed by Loukotka (1968): ^[6]

• Timane [ Timaná] – once spoken on the Magdalena River and Guarapas River around the city of Timaná.
• Yalcon / Cambi – once spoken between the Magdalena River and La Plata River.

Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items. ^[6]

gloss	Andaquí
one	guhigo
two	nashihishe
ear	sun-guaxo
tongue	shonaé
hand	sakaá
foot	soguapaná
water	xixi
stone	guatihi
maize	kike
fish	nengihi
house	kogo

See also

• Macro-Paesan languages

Further reading

• Coronas Urzúa, Gabriela (1994). "Análisis fonológico de la lengua Andaquí". Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 20 (1): 69. doi: 10.15517/rfl.v20i1.20230 . ISSN   2215-2628.
• Coronas Urzúa, Gabriela (1995). "El léxico de la lengua Andaquí". Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 21 (1): 79. doi: 10.15517/rfl.v21i1.20265 . ISSN   2215-2628.

References

1. Moens, Jelien; Pache, Matthias (2025-08-27). Notes on the grammar of Andakí. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.16964545. ISBN   978-3-96110-539-7.
2. Andaqui at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
3. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-511-48685-2.
4. Rivet, Paul. 1924. La langue Andakí. Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 16:99-110.
5. Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.
6. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages . Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.