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Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. Panama: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Claificación de los idiomas indígenas de Panamá, con un vocabulario comparativo de los mismos. Constenla Umaña, Adolfo & Margery Peña, Enrique.American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. ^ Constenla Umaña, Adolfo Margery Peña, Enrique.

Classification of South American Indian languages. Language Dynamics and Change 6 (2016) 99–155. Pumé (Yaruro) and Chocoan: Evidence for a New Genealogical Link in Northern South America. Die Sprachen Zentral-Amerikas in ihren Beziehungen zueinander sowie zu Süd-Amerika und Mexico. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas. ^ a b c Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery.Embera-Wounaan, who speak the Choco languages, Embera and Wounaan.glossįor reconstructions of Proto-Chocó and Proto-Emberá by Constenla and Margery (1991), see the corresponding Spanish article. Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Chocó languages. with Yaruro according to Pache (2016).within Joseph Greenberg's Nuclear Paezan, most closely related to Paezan and Barbacoan.Constenla Umaña and Margery Peña: may be related to Chibchan.within Paul Rivet and Loukotka's (1950) Cariban.Čestmír Loukotka (1944): Southern Emberá may be related to Paezan, Noanamá to Arawakan.Suárez, and Robert Gunn: related to Cariban : 324 Genetic relations Ĭhoco has been included in a number of hypothetical phylum relationships: However, similarities are few, some of which may be related to the adoption of maize cultivation from neighbors. Genetic links between Choco and Chibchan had been proposed by Lehmann (1920). Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Guahibo, Kamsa, Paez, Tukano, Witoto-Okaina, Yaruro, Chibchan, and Bora-Muinane language families due to contact. Embera, Northern: Embera Katio Embera Darien.Embera, Southern: Embera Baudo Embera Chami Epena.Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016): Noanamá has some 6,000 speakers on the Panama-Colombia border. Kaufman (1994) considers the term Cholo to be vague and condescending. Ethnologue divides this into six languages.

The Emberá group consists of two languages mainly in Colombia with over 60,000 speakers that lie within a fairly mutually intelligible dialect continuum. Noanamá (also known as Waunana, Woun Meu).The Emberá languages (also known as Chocó proper, Cholo).The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama.Ĭhoco consists of six known branches, all but two of which are extinct. Poet and politician Eduardo Cote Lamus on his journey in Río San Juan (Choco, Colombia) in 1958 with some of the people speaking Choco languages
