Coconucan language

Coconuco, also known as Coconucan, Guambiano, Misak, and Nam Trik, is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.

Coconuco
Namrrik
Native to	Colombia
Region	Cauca Department
Ethnicity	Guambiano (Misak)
Native speakers	21,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Barbacoan Coconuco
Dialects	Coconuco proper † Totoro Guambiano
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: gum – Guambiano ttk – Totoró
Glottolog	coco1262

Totoró may be extinct; it had 4 speakers in 1998 out of an ethnic population of 4,000. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.

Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious Paezan language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).

Phonology

The Guambiano inventory is as follows (Curnow & Liddicoat 1998:386).

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə
Back		a

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m	n		ɲ
Plosive	p	t			k
Affricate		ts	tʂ	tʃ
Fricative		s	ʂ	ʃ
Liquid		r, l		ʎ
Semivowel	w			j

List of words

English	Spanish	Guambiano	Ref.
One	Uno	Kan	[2]
Two	Dos	Pa
Three	Tres	Pyn
Dog	Perro	Wera
Man	Hombre	Myk
Moon	Luna	Pyl
Stone	Pierre	Xuk
Sun	Sol	Pych
Water	Agua	Pi
Woman	Mujer	Ixuk