Pijao
Pinao
Nativeย toColombia
RegionTolima
EthnicityPijao people
Extinct1950s
unclassified
(Cariban?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3pij
Glottologpija1235
Map of the Pijao people and language
Pijao is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Pijao (Piajao, originally Pinao[1]) is an unclassified indigenous American language that was spoken in the villages of Ortega, Coyaima (Koyai, Tupe) and Natagaima in the Magdalena River Valley of Colombia until the 1950s, by the Pijao and Panche people.[2]

Subdivisions

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Pijao subtribes reported by Rivet (1943, 1944) and cited in Mason (1950):[3]

Aype, Paloma, Ambeina, Amoya, Tumbo, Coyaima, Poina (Yaporoge), Mayto (Maito, Marto), Mola, Atayma (Otaima), Tuamo, Bulira, Ocaima, Behuni (Beuni, Biuni), Ombecho, Anaitoma, Totumo, Natagaima, Pana (Pamao), Guarro, Hamay, Zeraco, Lucira, and Tonuro.

Classification

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A small vocabulary list was collected in 1943; only 30 Pijao words and expressions are known.[citation needed]

The few words which resemble Carib are thought to be loans; toponyms in Pijao country are also Carib. Durbin & Seijas (1973) did not detect significant connections between Pijao and other unclassified languages of the area: Colima, Muzo, Pantรกgora, and Panche, but these are even more poorly attested than Pijao.[4]

Jolkesky (2016) also notes that there are lexical similarities with the Witoto-Okaina languages.[5]

Vocabulary

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Pijao gloss Pijao gloss Pijao gloss Pijao gloss Pijao gloss
amรฉ tree alamรกn crocodile nuhรบgi woman golรบpa cassava orรกi red
homรฉro bow tรญnki tooth orรฉma man lรบn eye tolรฉma snake
sumรฉn to drink tรกna water yaguรกde jaguar olรฉma ear huรญl sun
ฤaguรกla canoe nasรฉs house nรบna moon pegil foot tenรบ tobacco
kahรญrre dog hotรฉ star รฑรกma hand tรกpe stone

Notes

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  1. ^ Zwisler, Joshua James (2018). "The Pijao of Natagaima: Post-Linguicide Indigenous Identity and Language" (PDF). Cadernos de Etnolingรผรญstica. 6 (1): 51โ€“80.
  2. ^ Rivet, Paul (1943). "La influencia karib en Colombia". RINE. 1 (1): 55โ€“93, 283โ€“295.
  3. ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol.ย 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp.ย 157โ€“317.
  4. ^ Durbin & Seijas 1973.
  5. ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguรญstico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2ย ed.). Brasรญlia: University of Brasรญlia.

References

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Natagaima

tribes were the Dujos and Babadujos, who continuously fought against the Natagaimas and Coyaimas, and, motivated by the overwhelming quantity of received

List of unclassified languages of South America

Muzo โ€“ Colombia; may be Pijao (Cariban) Nacai โ€“ Brazil Nambu โ€“ Bolivia Natagaimas โ€“ Colombia; retired from ISO 639 as a synonym of Pijao Natรบ โ€“ Brazil;

Cariban languages

The Cariban languages are a family of languages Indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from

List of cities and towns in Colombia

1047 Melgar Tolima 32,774 36,930 1048 Murillo Tolima 5,075 5,001 1049 Natagaima Tolima 23,212 22,390 1050 Ortega Tolima 33,873 32,256 1051 Palocabildo

States of Colombia

Departments Panamรก Panamรก Departments Santander Pamplona, Bucaramanga, El Socorro Departments Tolima Purificaciรณn, Neiva, Natagaima, Guamo, Ibaguรฉ Departments

Pijao people

Terrence (1994). "The native languages of South America", in C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp.ย 46โ€“76). London: Routledge

ISO 639:n

This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with N. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |

Tatacoa Desert

Huila Department, 38ย km from the city of Neiva and 15ย km (9ย mi) from Natagaima in Tolima. It is renowned as a rich deposit of fossils and a tourist destination