U'wa | ||||
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Tenebo, Uw Cuwa | ||||
Spoken in | Northern slopes of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Boyacá Department, Colombia; Venezuela | |||
Ethnicity | U'wa | |||
Native speakers | 1,800–3,600[1] (2004) | |||
Language family |
Chibchan
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Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-3 | variously: tnd – Angosturas Tunebo tbn – Barro Negro Tunebo tuf – Central Tunebo tnb – Western Tunebo |
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The U'wa language, Uw Cuwa, commonly known as Tunebo, is a Chibchan language spoken by between 1,800 and 3,600 of the U'wa people of Colombia, out of a total population of about 7,000.[1]
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Dialects at the time of European contact, include –
Current dialects as described by Fabre 2005 are as follows:
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Low | a |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
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Voiceless stop | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||
Voiced Stop | b | |||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Vibrant | r | |||||
Oral semi-vowel | w | j | ||||
Nasal semi-vowel | w̃ |