Kogi | |
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Kággaba | |
Native to | Colombia |
Region | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
Ethnicity | Kogi |
Native speakers | 9,900 (2004)[1] nearly all monolingual |
Chibchan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kog |
Glottolog | cogu1240 |
ELP | Cogui |
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Kogi (Cogui), or Kagaba (Cágaba) (Cogui: Kággaba), is a Chibchan language of Colombia. The Kogi people are almost entirely monolingual, and maintain the only unconquered Andean civilization.
Phonology
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Mid | e ẽ | ʌ | o |
Open | a ã |
- /e, ẽ/ can also be heard as [ɛ, ɛ̃] when in unstressed syllables.
Bilabial | Dental/Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
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plain | geminated | plain | geminated | plain | geminated | ||||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tː | k | kː | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | bː | d | dː | g | gː | |||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ ⟨sh⟩ | x ⟨j⟩ | h | ||||
voiced | z | ʒ ⟨zh⟩ | |||||||
Lateral | l | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ñ⟩ | ||||||
Approximant | w | j ⟨y⟩ |
- Affricate sounds [ts, dz, tʃ, dʒ] are heard when sibilant sounds /s, z, ʃ, ʒ/ precede /n/. If /t, d/ precede /i/ then they are realized as affricates [tʃ, dʒ].
- /n/ before /i/ may be realized as a palatal [ɲ].[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Kogi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Gawthorne, Linda A.; Hensarling, Grace E. (1984). Fonología del cogui. Sistemas fonológicos de idiomas colombianos (V.G.Waterhouse, comp.): Lomalinda: Editorial Townsend.