Andoque language

Andoque
Andoké
Native toColombia
Ethnicity820 Andoque people (2018 census)[1]
Native speakers
370 (2007)[1]
50 monolinguals (no date)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ano
Glottologando1256
ELPAndoque

Andoque is a language spoken by a few hundred Andoque people in Colombia, and is in decline. There were 10,000 speakers in 1908, down to 370 a century later, of which at most 50 are monolingual. The remaining speakers live in four residential areas in the region of the Anduche River, downstream from Araracuara, Solano, Caquetá, Colombia;[2] the language is no longer spoken in Peru. Most speakers shifted to Spanish.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d Andoque at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Epps, Patience; Michael, Lev, eds. (2023). Amazonian Languages: Language Isolates. Volume I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Chapra. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-041940-5.