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The majority of Colombians speak Spanish (see also Colombian Spanish), but in total 90 languages are listed for Colombia in the Ethnologue database. The specific number of spoken languages varies slightly since some authors consider as different languages what others consider to be varieties or dialects of the same language.
[10] [11] However, after Spanish conquest, the population of Colombia was lowered to only 750 thousand people, in which native peoples made up 80% of the population at 600 thousand people. [12] This would lower after independence when the population grew to 1.327 million in which natives made up 53% of the population at 700 thousand people. [ 13 ]
The culture of Colombia has vibrant indigenous influences within its culture. Full Indigenous peoples of Colombia are estimated to be around 4-10% of the country’s population, [4] [5] [6] however most still hold on to indigenous traditions and folklore. Indigenous influences in Colombian culture include cuisine, music, architecture, language ...
Kogi men and women alike have simple modes of dress. Women pick, card, and spin wool and cotton; men weave it into cloth. Men's clothing consists of a tunic and simple pants tied with a string at the waist. Women's clothing consists of a single length of cloth wrapped around their bodies as a dress. The Kogi all wear only pure white clothing.
The native language of the Wiwa people is Dʉmʉna, also known as Malayo, Wiwa, or Guamaka; [4] It belongs to the Chibchan language family and is spoken by more than one thousand people. According to the Colombian Ministry of Culture, 60% of the Wiwa people spoke Dʉmʉna well in 2010. [3] The Wiwa language has 7 vowel phonemes and 19 consonant ...
The people speak Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family, also called Muysca and Mosca. [2] The first known contact with Europeans were Spaniards in 1537 during the conquest . During the colonial era, Spanish clerics and civil officials had a major impact on them, attempting to Christianize and incorporate them into the Spanish ...
The Pijao or Pijaos formed a loose federation of anthropophagous [1] Amerindians and were living in the present-day department of Tolima, Colombia.In pre-Colombian times, they inhabited the Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes; between the snowy mountains of Huila, Tolima and Quindío, the upper valley of the Magdalena River and the upper Valle del Cauca in Colombia.
Poet and politician Eduardo Cote Lamus on his journey in Río San Juan (Choco, Colombia) in 1958 with some of the people speaking Choco languages. The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama.