Panche language

The Panche language is an unclassified – and possibly unclassifiable – language formerly spoken in Colombia. It may have been Cariban.^[1] According to Pedro Simón, the word panche in their own Panche language means "cruel" and "murderer".^[2]

Panche
Native to	Colombia
Region	Cundinamarca Department, Tolima Department
Ethnicity	Panche
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	unclassified (Cariban?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	panc1242

Vocabulary

Panche vocabulary^[3]

Gloss	Panche
important personage	acaima
Spaniard	xua
Tequendama Falls	pati
bagre	panche
large fish with big mouth	patalo
cruel assassin	colima
very powerful man	xe amima
snow	tolima