| Chimila | |
|---|---|
| Ette taara | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Ethnicity | 1,500 (2009)[1] |
Native speakers | 350 (2009)[1] |
Chibchan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cbg |
| Glottolog | chim1309 |
| ELP | Chimila |
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Chimila (Shimizya), also known as Ette Taara,[2] is a Chibchan language of Colombia, spoken by the Chimila people, who live between the lower Magdalena river, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria and the Cesar river.[3] At one time Chimila was grouped with the Malibu languages,[4] but then Chimila became classified as a Chibchan language.
Julian Steward, in the 1950 Handbook of South American Indians, reports a communication from Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff that he considered Chimila to be one of the Arawakan languages, and would thus be expected to be like Tairona, one of the Chibchan languages.[5]
- ^ a b Chimila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Narváez Escobar, Sindy Paola (2020). "La aproximación del léxico ette taara en el ciclo Moonate de la Institución Etnoeducativa Departamental Ette Ennaka". Lingüística y Literatura (in Spanish). 41 (78): 352–383. doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.n78a14.
- ^ Adelaar & Muysken (2004, p. 75)
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 244–5.
- ^ Steward, Julian Haynes (1950). Handbook of South American Indians: Physical anthropology, linguistics and cultural geography of South American Indians. Handbook of South American Indians, United States. Vol. 6. Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation. pp. 187–88.