Nutabe language

Last updated
Nutabe
Native to Colombia
Region Santa Fe de Antioquia
Extinct (date missing)
Chibchan
  • (unclassified)

    • Nutabe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qff
Glottolog None
anti1242  incl. in Antioquian [1]

Nutabe (Nutabane) is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia (Adelaar & Muysken, 2004:49).

Chibchan languages language family

The Chibchan languages make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian Area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The name is derived from the name of an extinct language called Chibcha or Muysccubun, once spoken by the people who lived on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of which the city of Bogotá was the southern capital at the time of the Spanish Conquista. However, genetic and linguistic data now indicate that the original heart of Chibchan languages and Chibchan-speaking peoples may not have been in Colombia at all, but in the area of the Costa Rica-Panama border, where one finds the greatest variety of Chibchan languages.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Antioquian". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.