Tinigua language
| Tinigua | |
|---|---|
| Tiniguas | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Meta Department, Colombia; Sierra de la Macarena, Colombia |
| Ethnicity | 2[1] |
Native speakers | 2 (2000)[1] |
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Tiniguan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tit |
| Glottolog |
tini1245[2] |
Tinigua (Tiniguas) is an endangered language isolate spoken in Colombia. As of 2000, Tinigua had only two remaining speakers, both male. They live in Meta Department, between the Upper Guayabero and Yari rivers. Tinigua used to form a small language family with the now extinct Pamigua language.
References
- 1 2 Tinigua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tinigua". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Matthias Brenzinger (2007), Language diversity endangered, 181, of Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, Walter de Gruyter, p. 23, ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4, retrieved 2009-08-28
- Christopher Moseley (2007), Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages, Routledge, p. 40, ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0, retrieved 2009-09-19
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