Atanque language
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Atanque, also known as Atanques or Kankuamo, is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia,[1] once spoken in the area of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Vocabulary
There is very little information about the language, in particular with regard to grammar. Before its speakers switched to Spanish, Celedón (1892) managed to compile a brief dictionary. The following table shows a sample of the lexicon.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
| gloss | Atanque |
|---|---|
| one | ijkua |
| two | moga |
| three | ména |
| head | chakúku |
| eye | úma |
| nose | michiuña |
| ear | kukkuá |
| tooth | köhka |
| man | ferúa |
| woman | amia |
| water | dita |
| fuego | guié |
| earth | nebinyàku |
| fish | uáka |
| tree | kandina |
| sun | koköbúnyo |
| moon | sakaméru |
Despite being so poorly attested, Atanque clearly belongs to the Arwako subgroup of Chibcha. In particular, it appears to be very close to Wiwa in terms of phonetic innovations.[2]
Toponyms
Traces of Atanque are also preserved in toponyms recorded in the region of Sierra Nevada.[3] Suffixes like -ka "place, site" (e.g. in Susungá-ka, Chingá-ka, Kankuá-ka) or -kua "bower" (e.g. in Birintu-kua, Risátu-kua, Kamíntu-kua) are diagnostic of an Atanque source.[4]
Notes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shafer, Robert (1962). "Aruakan (Not Arawakan)". Anthropological Linguistics. 4 (4): 31–40. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30022363.
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References
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Celedón, Rafael (1892). "Vocabulario de la lengua Atanques" (PDF). Proceedings of the 8th. International Congress of Americanists of 1890 (in español). Paris: Ernest Leroux: 591–599. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-03.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jackson, Robert T. (1996). "Fonología comparativa de los idiomas chibchas de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta". Boletín Museo del Oro (in español) (38–39): 57–69.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leal Arias, Samuel (2019). Diccionario Español Kankuamo. Valledupar: Universidad Popular del Cesar.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Salas, Andrés Alfonso Pastrana (2020). "Una configuración toponímica del resguardo indígena kankuamo". Lingüística y Literatura (in español). 41 (77): 146–171. doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.n77a07. ISSN 0120-5587.
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