Totoro language
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| Totoró | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Cauca Department |
| Extinct | by 2016[1] |
Barbacoan languages
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ttk |
| Glottolog | toto1306 |
| ELP | Totoró |
 Map of where Totoró was spoken in Colombia | |
 Totoró is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] | |
Totoró is a Barbacoan language formerly spoken in southwestern Colombia, in Cauca Department by the Totorós, who number about 1,000 people.[3] The language went extinct recently, with just 4 speakers in 1998.[4]
Classification
[edit]Totoro, along with Guambiano and the long-extinct Coconuco language, form a subgroup of the Barbacoan languages. These language varieties are sometimes considered to be dialectes of one Coconucan language.
Within the Barbacoan family, Coconucan and Awa Pit constitute the northern branch of it.
References
[edit]- ^ Totoró at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ^ Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (3 ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. p. 16-17. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2.
- ^ Curnow & Liddicoat 1998, p. 385.
- ^ "Did you know Totoró is dormant?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
Bibliography
[edit]- Curnow, Timothy Jowan; Liddicoat, Anthony J. (1998). "The Barbacoan Languages of Colombia and Ecuador". Anthropological Linguistics. 40 (3): 384–408. ISSN 0003-5483.
- Gonzales Castaño, Geny (2019). Una gramática de la lengua namtrik de Totoró : lengua barbacoa hablada en los Andes colombianos (in Spanish). Université de Lyon.
- (es) Geny Gonzales Castaño, « “Nosotros teníamos que ser diferentes” Apuntes para una reflexión sobre el alfabeto de la lengua nam trik », dans Tulio Rojas Curieux, Corpus lingüístico : estudio y aplicación en revitalización de lenguas indígenas, Popayán, Universidad del Cauca, 2017 (lire en ligne), p. 103-128
