Kogi language

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.

Kogi
Kággaba
Native toColombia
RegionSierra Nevada de Santa Marta
EthnicityKogi
Native speakers
9,900 (2004)[1]
nearly all monolingual
Chibchan
  • Arwako–Chimila
    • Arwako
      • Kogi
Language codes
ISO 639-3kog
Glottologcogu1240[2]

Phonology
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Close-mid e ẽ o
Mid ə
Open a ã

[3]

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
plain geminated plain geminated lateral plain geminated
Stop voiceless p t t: k k: ʔ
voiced b b: d d: g g:
Fricative voiceless s ʃ x h
voiced z ɮ ʒ
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant j
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References
  1. Kogi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cogui". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-10.


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