Barbacoan languages

The Barbacoa languages ​​( named after the city Barbacoas in Colombia, . Engl Barbacoan ) are an indigenous language family of South America, which is common in Colombia and Ecuador and consists of seven individual languages ​​( in square brackets, the ISO 639-3 code specified):

• Andaqui: Andaqui [ ana ] ( extinct, formerly in Colombia)

• Chachi [ cbi ] (approx. 3,500 speakers in Ecuador)
• Colorado [ cof ] (approx. 2,300 speakers in Ecuador)

• Guambiano [ gum ] (about 15,600 speakers in Colombia)
• Totoro [ TTK ] (about 4 speakers in Colombia, at 1998 )

• Barbacoas [ bpb ] ( extinct, formerly in Colombia)
• Awa- Cuaiquer [ kwi ] (about 21,000 speakers in Colombia and Ecuador)

The Barbacoa languages ​​may be related to the Páez and together with him the family Páez - Barbacoa.

Swell

• Lyle Campbell: American Indian Languages ​​: the historical linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press, New York 1997, pp. 173 and 174
• Helmut Glück ( ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 4th edition; Publisher J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar, 2010, ISBN 3-476-02335-4