| Nutabe | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Santa Fe de Antioquia |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Chibchan
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| 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).
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.