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Endangered language of Colombia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tinigua (Tiniguas) is an endangered Tiniguan language spoken in Colombia which used to form a small language family with the now extinct Pamigua language.
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As of 2000, Tinigua had only two remaining speakers, Sixto Muñoz (Tinigua name: Sɨsɨthio ‘knife’) and his brother, Criterio. Criterio died around 2005, leaving behind Sixto as the last remaining speaker of Tinigua.[2] Formerly a resident of the Serranía de la Macarena in Meta Department, Sixto Muñoz currently resides in Jiw village of Barrancón, near the main town of Guaviare Department.[3]: 1029 They lived in Meta Department, between the Upper Guayabero and Yari rivers.[4]
Muñoz also speaks Spanish and is thought to have been born somewhere from 1924-1929. He has five children, but he chose not to teach them Tinigua because they would not have any use for it.[5]
Below is a comparison of Tinigua forms elicited from Sixto Muñoz in 2019 compared with Tinigua and Pamigua words recorded in Castellví (1940).[6][3]
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