Chimila language

Chimila
Ette taara
Native toColombia
Ethnicity1,500 (2009)[1]
Native speakers
350 (2009)[1]
Chibchan
  • Arwako–Chimila
    • Chimila
Language codes
ISO 639-3cbg
Glottologchim1309
ELPChimila

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]

  1. ^ a b Chimila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Adelaar & Muysken (2004, p. 75)
  4. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 244–5.
  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.