Andaqui language explained

Andaqui
Nativename:	Jirara
States:	Colombia
Region:	southern highlands
Ethnicity:	Andaqui people
Extinct:	by the 1970s
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	American
Family:	Paezan or Barbacoan ?
Iso3:	ana
Glotto:	anda1286
Glottorefname:	Andaqui

Andaqui (or Andaki) is an extinct language from the southern highlands of Colombia. It has been linked to the Paezan or Barbacoan languages, but no connections have been demonstrated. It was spoken by the Andaqui people of Colombia.

Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with Paez, Chibcha (also proposed by Rivet 1924^[1]), and Tinigua-Pamigua due to contact.^[2]

Varieties

Other unattested varieties possibly related to Andaqui that are listed by Loukotka (1968):^[3]

• Timaná - once spoken on the Magdalena River and Guarapas River around the city of Timaná.
• Yalcon / Cambi - once spoken between the Magdalena River and La Plata River.

Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.^[4]

gloss	Andaquí
one	guhigo
two	nashihishe
ear	sun-guaxo
tongue	shonaé
hand	sakaá
foot	soguapaná
water	xixi
stone	guatihi
maize	kike
fish	nengihi
house	kogo

See also

• Macro-Paesan languages

Further reading

• Coronas Urzúa, G. (1994). Análisis Fonológico de la lengua Andaquí. Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 20:69-98.
• Coronas Urzúa, G. (1995). El lexico de la lengua andaquí. Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 21:79-113.

External links

• El léxico de la lengua Andaquí (PDF)

Notes and References

1. Rivet, Paul. 1924. La langue Andakí. Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 16:99-110.
2. Jolkesky . Marcelo Pinho de Valhery . 2016 . Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas . Ph.D. dissertation . Brasília . University of Brasília . 2.
3. Book: Loukotka, Čestmír . Čestmír Loukotka

   . Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.

4. Book: Loukotka, Čestmír . Čestmír Loukotka

   . Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.