Kogi language
Kogi | |
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Kággaba | |
Native to | Colombia |
Region | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
Ethnicity | Kogi |
Native speakers | 9,900 (2004)[1] nearly all monolingual |
Chibchan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kog |
Glottolog | cogu1240 |
ELP | Cogui |
Kogi (Cogui), or Kagaba (Cágaba), is a Chibchan language of Colombia. The Kogi people are almost entirely monolingual, and maintain the only unconquered Andean civilization.
Phonology
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Close-mid | e ẽ | o | |
Mid | ə | ||
Open | a ã |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | geminated | plain | geminated | plain | geminated | |||||
Stop | voiceless | p | t | t: | k | k: | ʔ | |||
voiced | b | b: | d | d: | g | g: | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | x | h | |||||
voiced | z | ʒ | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
Approximant | j |
References
- ^ Kogi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-10.