Barbacoan languages

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Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador.

Family division

Barboacoan consists of 8 languages:

I. Northern

1. Coaiquer (a.k.a. Cuaiquer, Awa, Awa Pit, Awa-Cuaiquer)

i. Guambiano-Totoró

2. Guambiano (a.k.a. Guambiano-Moguez, Wambiano-Mogés, Moguez)

3. Totoró

4. Muellama (a.k.a. Muelyama) (†)

5. Pasto (†)

II. Southern

6. Caranqui (a.k.a. Kara) (†)

7. Cayapa (a.k.a. Chachi, Cha’palaachi)

8. Colorado (a.k.a. Tsafiqui, Colima, Campaz)

Muellama, Pasto, and Caranqui are now extinct. Totoró is sometimes considered a dialect of Guambiano instead of a separate language.

Guambiano is considered a Barbacoan language by Key (1979), Curnow et al. (1998), and Gordon (2005), but Kaufman (1990, 1994) considers it a Paezan language.

The Barbacoan languages may be related to the Paezan languages; however, Curnow (1998) shows how much of this speculation is based on misinterpretation of an old document of Douay (1888). Other more speculative larger groupings involving Barbacoan include the Macro-Paesan "cluster", the Macro-Chibchan stock, and the Chibchan-Paezan stock.

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