Coconucan language

{{Short description|Barbacoan language spoken in Colombia}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Coconuco

| nativename = Namrrik

| states = Colombia

| region = Cauca Department

| ethnicity = Guambiano (Misak)

| speakers = 21,000

| date = 2008

| ref = e18

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Barbacoan

| lc1 = gum

| ld1 = Guambiano

| lc2 = ttk

| ld2 = Totoró

| glotto = coco1262

| glottorefname = Coconucan

| dia1 = Coconuco proper {{extinct}}

| dia2 = Totoro

| dia3 = Guambiano

}}

Coconuco, also known as Coconucan, Guambiano, Misak, and Nam Trik, is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.

Totoró may be extinct; it had 4 speakers in 1998 out of an ethnic population of 4,000. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.

Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious Paezan language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).