| Coconuco | |
| Nativename: | Namrrik |
| States: | Colombia |
| Region: | Cauca Department |
| Ethnicity: | Guambiano (Misak) |
| Speakers: | 21,000 |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Barbacoan |
| Lc1: | gum |
| Ld1: | Guambiano |
| Lc2: | ttk |
| Ld2: | Totoró |
| Glotto: | coco1262 |
| Glottorefname: | Coconucan |
Coconuco, also known as Coconucan, Guambiano and Misak, is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.
Totoró may be extinct; it had 4 speakers in 1998 out of an ethnic population of 4,000. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.
Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious Paezan language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).
The Guambiano inventory is as follows (Curnow & Liddicoat 1998:386).
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Back | pronounced as /link/ |
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Liquid | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |