Atanque language
 |
| Atanque | |
|---|---|
| Cancuamo | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Ethnicity | Kankuamo, Atanque |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Chibchan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qji | |
| Glottolog | kank1244 |
Atanque, also known as Atanques or Kankuamo, is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia,[1] once spoken in the area of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Vocabulary
[edit]There is very little information about the language, in particular with regard to grammar. Before its speakers switched to Spanish, CeledĂłn (1892) managed to compile a brief dictionary. The following table shows a sample of the lexicon.
| gloss | Atanque |
|---|---|
| one | ijkua |
| two | moga |
| three | ména |
| head | chakĂșku |
| eye | Ășma |
| nose | michiuña |
| ear | kukkuĂĄ |
| tooth | köhka |
| man | ferĂșa |
| woman | amia |
| water | dita |
| fuego | guié |
| earth | nebinyĂ ku |
| fish | uĂĄka |
| tree | kandina |
| sun | koköbĂșnyo |
| moon | sakaméru |
Despite being so poorly attested, Atanque clearly belongs to the Arwako subgroup of Chibcha. In particular, it appears to be very close to Wiwa in terms of phonetic innovations.[2]
Toponyms
[edit]Traces of Atanque are also preserved in toponyms recorded in the region of Sierra Nevada.[3] Suffixes like -ka "place, site" (e.g. in SusungĂĄ-ka, ChingĂĄ-ka, KankuĂĄ-ka) or -kua "bower" (e.g. in Birintu-kua, RisĂĄtu-kua, KamĂntu-kua) are diagnostic of an Atanque source.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Shafer, Robert (1962). "Aruakan (Not Arawakan)". Anthropological Linguistics. 4 (4): 31â40. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30022363.
- ^ Jackson (1996, pp. 66â67).
- ^ Salas (2020, pp. 162â164).
- ^ Salas (2020, pp. 164â167).
References
[edit]- CeledĂłn, Rafael (1892). "Vocabulario de la lengua Atanques" (PDF). Proceedings of the 8th. International Congress of Americanists of 1890 (in Spanish). Paris: Ernest Leroux: 591â599. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03.
- Jackson, Robert T. (1996). "FonologĂa comparativa de los idiomas chibchas de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta". BoletĂn Museo del Oro (in Spanish) (38â39): 57â69.
- Leal Arias, Samuel (2019). Diccionario Español Kankuamo. Valledupar: Universidad Popular del Cesar.
- Salas, AndrĂ©s Alfonso Pastrana (2020). "Una configuraciĂłn toponĂmica del resguardo indĂgena kankuamo". LingĂŒĂstica y Literatura (in Spanish). 41 (77): 146â171. doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.n77a07. ISSN 0120-5587.
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