Nutabe language

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Nutabe
Native to Colombia
Region Santa Fe de Antioquia
Ethnicity Nutabe
Extinct (date missing)
Chibchan
  • (unclassified)
    • Antioquian
      • Nutabe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qff
Glottolog anti1242   incl. in Antioquian

Nutabe (Nutabane[ citation needed ]) is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia, historically spoken by the Nutabe people. [1]

Adolfo Constenla Umaña [2] also refers to the language as “Antioquian” (referencing the local name of Santa Fe de Antioquia). In this grouping Constenla names both Nutabe and Catío.

Surviving documentation

Very little documentation of Nutabe, or its close relative Old Catío, remains. A 1946 publication by Paul Rivet [3] gathers the short list together, comparing Nutabe and Old Catío. (Rivet pointed out that the label "Catío" had already come to refer to a non-Chibchan language, Catío (Chocoan).

References

  1. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge (G.B.): Cambridge University press. ISBN   978-0-521-36275-7.
  2. Umaña, Adolfo Constenla (2012-01-27), Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.), "Chibchan languages" , The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 391–440, doi:10.1515/9783110258035.391, ISBN   978-3-11-025803-5 , retrieved 2025-02-25
  3. Rivet, Paul (1943). "Nouvelle contribution à l'étude de l'ethnologie précolombienne de Colombie". Journal de la société des américanistes (in French). 35 (1): 25–39. doi:10.3406/jsa.1943.2342.