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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.
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.
Pre-Columbian Ruana (Pozo de Hunzahúa) Tunja, Boyaca - Colombia. The ruanas worn by the native Muisca (Chibcha) were apparently made of wool and knee-long, well-suited to the low temperatures of the region where they were used not only as a piece of garment but also as a blanket for use in bed or to sit on as a cushion of sorts. Many ruanas ...
[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 ]
Today, most Ticuna people dress in western clothing and only wear their traditional garments made out of tree bark and practice their ceremonies on special occasions or for tourists. [9] Most Ticuna nowadays are fluent in Portuguese or Spanish depending on the country in which they live, [ 4 ] and mostly use Spanish and Portuguese names.
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 ...
Emberá (also known as Chocó) is a dialect continuum spoken by 100,000 people in northwestern Colombia and southeastern Panama. It belongs to the Choco language family . Embera, Emperã, Empena, Eberã, Epena , etc. is the Embera word for 'human being' or 'man' and is used as the autonym by all speakers of varieties of Embera (though not by ...
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]