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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.
Sign languages of Colombia (2 P) Spanish language (20 C, 70 P) W. Wayuu language (2 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Languages of Colombia"
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
Maniba – unknown language spoken on the Inirida River and Pupunagua River, Vaupés territory, Colombia. Maracano – unknown language spoken on the central part of Maracá Island, Rio Branco territory, Brazil. Maricupi – lower course of the Montoura River, Amapá territory. Menejou – middle course of the Jarí River, Amapá territory.
The Muisca inhabit the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of what today is the country of Colombia. The name of the language Muysc cubun in its own language means "language of the people", from muysca ("people") and cubun ("language" or "word"). Despite the disappearance of the language in the 17th century (approximately), several language revitalization ...
It is spoken largely in Colombia, but is also the principal language of the Darién Gap in Panama.The Emberá language is divided into two branches: Northern and Southern. Two prominent Northern groups are Emberá Darien and Catío. The Catío language is spoken by 10,000 - 20,000 people, whose literacy rate is at 1%.
The Emberá group consists of two languages mainly in Colombia with over 60,000 speakers that lie within a fairly mutually intelligible dialect continuum. Ethnologue divides this into six languages. Kaufman (1994) considers the term Cholo to be vague and condescending. Noanamá has some 6,000 speakers on the Panama-Colombia border.
The Cacua [5] [4] [6] language, also known as Kakua [7] or Kakwa, is an indigenous language spoken by a few hundred people in Colombia and Brazil. There are many monolinguals, especially children. [5] Apart from being close to or a dialect of Nukak, its classification is uncertain.