Social:Malibu languages
| Malibu | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Department of Magdalena, Colombia |
| Linguistic classification | unclassified |
| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | (not evaluated) mali1242 (Malibu proper)[1] |
 Pre-contact distribution of the Malibu languages | |
The Malibu languages are a poorly attested group of dead languages once spoken along the Magdalena River in Colombia. Material exists only for two of the numerous languages mentioned in the literature: Malibú and Mocana.
Classification
The Malibu languages have previously been grouped into a single family with the Chimila language.[2] However, Chimila is now known to be a Chibchan language,[3] and Adelaar & Muysken regard the grouping of Chimila with the Malibu languages as "without any factual basis".[4]
Family division
Rivet initially listed three Malibu tribes, each with its own language:[5]
- Malibú,[6] spoken near the Magdalena River from Tamalameque to Tenerife
- Mocaná, spoken by the Mokaná people in the region east of Cartagena (Rivet 1947b; Simón 1882-1892, vol. 4, p. 298, only two words.)
- Pacabuey, also known as Sompallón or Laguna Malibu, spoken near the Zapatoza lagoon (Unattested.)
To this list, Loukotka adds six more languages, all of which are unattested (excluding Chimila):[2]
- Papale, spoken on the Fundación River
- Coanoa or Guanoa, spoken on the Cesar River
- Zamirua, spoken on the Ariguaní River
- Cospique, spoken somewhere in the Department of Magdalena
- Mompox, spoken near the city of Santa Cruz de Mompox
- Calamari, spoken along the coast south of Cartagena to Coveñas
Vocabulary
Rivet gives a brief list of words from Malibú and Mocana, but does not distinguish the two languages.[5] A selection of these is provided below:
- tahana – manzanilla tree
- malibu – chief
- man – small boat
- ytaylaco / yteylaco / yntelas / ytaylas – devil, deity
- entaha / enbutac – cassava
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Malibu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mali1242.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 244–5. https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk.
- ↑ Gordon, Raymond G., ed (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com.
- ↑ Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7. https://archive.org/details/languagesandesca00adel.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rivet, Paul (1947). "Les indiens Malibú". Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris 36: 139–144. doi:10.3406/jsa.1947.2360.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Malibu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mali1242.
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