Chimila | |
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Ette taara | |
Native to | Colombia |
Ethnicity | 1,500 (2009)[1] |
Native speakers | 350 (2009)[1] |
Chibchan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cbg |
Glottolog | chim1309 |
ELP | Chimila |
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Chimila (Shimizya), also known as Ette Taara,[2] is a Chibchan language of Colombia, spoken by the Chimila people, who live between the lower Magdalena river, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria and the Cesar river.[3] At one time Chimila was grouped with the Malibu languages,[4] but then Chimila became classified as a Chibchan language.
Julian Steward, in the 1950 Handbook of South American Indians, reports a communication from Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff that he considered Chimila to be one of the Arawakan languages, and would thus be expected to be like Tairona, one of the Chibchan languages.[5]
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