Panche language
| Panche | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Cundinamarca Department, Tolima Department |
| Ethnicity | Panche |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
unclassified (Cariban?) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | panc1242 |
The Panche language is an unclassified – and possibly unclassifiable – language formerly spoken in Colombia. It may have been Cariban.[1] According to Pedro Simón, the word panche in their own Panche language means "cruel" and "murderer".[2]
Vocabulary
| Gloss | Panche |
|---|---|
| important personage | acaima |
| Spaniard | xua |
| Tequendama Falls | pati |
| bagre | panche |
| large fish with big mouth | patalo |
| cruel assassin | colima |
| very powerful man | xe amima |
| snow | tolima |
References
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Panche". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ del Castillo Mathieu, Nicolás (1972). "El vocabulario muzo-colima de la «Relación» de Juan Suárez de Cepeda (1582)" (PDF). Thesaurus. 27 (3): 413–441. ISSN 0040-604X.
- ^ Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydée (January 1973). "A Note on Panche, Pijao, Pantagora (Palenque), Colima and Muzo". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (1): 47–51. doi:10.1086/465239. ISSN 0020-7071.