Tairona language

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Tairona
Native to Colombia
Ethnicity Tairona
Extinct (date missing)
Chibchan
  • Arhuacan
    • Tairona
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None

Tairona is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia, part of the Arhuacan subgroup and formerly spoken by the Tairona. [1] It is reportedly used by the Kogi people as a ritual language. [2] It has also been proposed to be of other linguistic affiliations. [3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary, eds. (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London: Routledge, ISBN   978-0-415-01925-5
  3. ↑ 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.
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