Chibcha languages
Chibcha is a language family in Central America and South America and is one of the indigenous American languages .
The Chibcha languages are a family of native Indian languages of Colombia and Central America. The name is a variation of an extinct language called Chibcha or Muisca, which was spoken by the inhabitants near the city of Bogotá until the time of discovery. This chibcha quickly died out after the use of indigenous languages was banned on May 10, 1783. Nowadays, however, it is assumed that the genetic and linguistic ancestry of the Chibcha is more likely to be found in Costa Rica and Panama than in Colombia, where the largest variety of Chibcha languages can be found, including the two most widely spoken: Ngäbere , the language the guaymí , and kuna .
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Occasionally, it is assumed that the Chibcha languages can be combined with the Misumalpa languages , Lenca , Tarasken (Purépecha) , Xinca , Cuitlatec and Yanoama languages to form a language family called Macro Chibcha . Joseph Greenberg divides the Chibcha languages with Paez into what he calls the Chibcha-Paez subfamily of Amerindic . Relationships with the language families of the Uto-Aztec languages and the Pano-Takana languages have also been suggested, but what all these approaches have in common is that they are highly speculative and difficult to substantiate empirically. The Chibcha languages have the greatest similarities with the neighboring Misumalpa languages in the north and the Chocó languages in the south.
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literature
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