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In Colombia, the ruana is the characteristic and traditional garment of the department of Boyacá, initially made by indigenous and mestizo people, although it is also made in the departments of Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Nariño, Bogotá, Santander (Colombia), Norte de Santander and Caldas.
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.
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 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 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 ...
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.
[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 Kankuamo people, estimated at 15,000 individuals, speak Sánha, a dialect of the Atanque language of the Chibcha family. Their laws are borne from nature and they consider the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest mountain range closest to the sea, as sacred. In their native tongue they call this Umunukunu. [1]