Andaqui language

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{{Infobox language

| name = Andaqui

| nativename = {{lang|ana|Jirara}}

| states = Colombia

| region = southern highlands

| ethnicity = Andaqui people

| extinct = by 1970s

| ref = e25

| familycolor = American

| iso3 = ana

| glotto = anda1286

| glottorefname = Andaqui

| dia1 = Timaná

| dia2 = Yalcon/Cabmi

| fam1 = Paezan?
Barbacoan ?

}}

Andaqui (or Andaki) is an extinct language from the southern highlands of Colombia. It has been linked to the Paezan or Barbacoan languages, but no connections have been demonstrated. It was spoken by the Andaqui people of Colombia.

Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with Paez, Chibcha (also proposed by Rivet 1924Rivet, Paul. 1924. La langue Andakí. Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 16:99-110.), and Tinigua-Pamigua due to contact.{{cite thesis|last=Jolkesky |first=Marcelo Pinho de Valhery |date=2016 |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica |title=Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas |type=Ph.D. dissertation |location=Brasília |publisher=University of Brasília |edition=2}}

Varieties

Other unattested varieties possibly related to Andaqui that are listed by Loukotka (1968):{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |authorlink=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}}

Timaná – once spoken on the Magdalena River and Guarapas River around the city of Timaná.
Yalcon / Cambi – once spoken between the Magdalena River and La Plata River.

Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |authorlink=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}}

:

class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss !! Andaquí
one	{{lang\|ana\|guhigo}}
two	{{lang\|ana\|nashihishe}}
ear	{{lang\|ana\|sun-guaxo}}
tongue	{{lang\|ana\|shonaé}}
hand	{{lang\|ana\|sakaá}}
foot	{{lang\|ana\|soguapaná}}
water	{{lang\|ana\|xixi}}
stone	{{lang\|ana\|guatihi}}
maize	{{lang\|ana\|kike}}
fish	{{lang\|ana\|nengihi}}
house	{{lang\|ana\|kogo}}

References

External links

{{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Andaqui word list}}

[https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/20265 El léxico de la lengua Andaquí] ([https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/download/20265/20602/ PDF])

Category:Indigenous languages of South America

Category:Extinct languages of South America

Category:Language isolates of South America

Category:Macro-Paesan languages