Kallawaya language

Kallawaya
Native toBolivia
RegionLa Paz Department: Charazani; highlands north of Lake Titicaca
Native speakers
None[1]
10–20 as 2nd language[citation needed]
Puquina
  • Kallawaya
Official status
Official language in
 Bolivia[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3caw
Glottologcall1235
ELPKallawaya

Kallawaya, also Callahuaya or Callawalla, is an endangered, secret, mixed language in Bolivia; another name sometimes used for the language is Pohena. It is spoken by the Kallawaya people, a group of traditional itinerant healers in the Andes in their medicinal healing practice living in Charazani, the highlands north of Lake Titicaca,[3] and Tipuani.[4]

  1. ^ Kallawaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Constitución política del Estado" (PDF) (in Spanish). Gaceta Oficial de Bolivia. February 7, 2009. p. 2. Retrieved November 23, 2022. Artículo 5.1: Son idiomas oficiales del Estado el castellano y todos los idiomas de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario [sic] campesinos, que son el aymara, [...], machajuyai-kallawaya, [...] y zamuco.
  3. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Bolivia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  4. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.