Panche language

Panche
Panche
Native to	Colombia
Region	Cundinamarca Department, Tolima Department
Ethnicity	Panche
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	unclassified (Cariban?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	panc1242

The Panche language is an unclassified – and possibly unclassifiable – language formerly spoken in Colombia. It may have been Cariban.¹ According to Pedro Simón, the word panche in their own Panche language means "cruel" and "murderer".²

Vocabulary

Panche vocabulary³
Gloss	Panche
important personage	acaima
Spaniard	xua
Tequendama Falls	pati
bagre	panche
large fish with big mouth	patalo
cruel assassin	colima
very powerful man	xe amima
snow	tolima

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Panche". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
del Castillo Mathieu, Nicolás (1972). "El vocabulario muzo-colima de la «Relación» de Juan Suárez de Cepeda (1582)" (PDF). Thesaurus. 27 (3): 413–441. ISSN 0040-604X.
Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydée (January 1973). "A Note on Panche, Pijao, Pantagora (Palenque), Colima and Muzo". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (1): 47–51. doi:10.1086/465239. ISSN 0020-7071.

[1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Panche". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[2] Castillo Mathieu, Nicolás (1972). "El vocabulario muzo-colima de la «Relación» de Juan Suárez de Cepeda (1582)" (PDF). Thesaurus. 27 (3): 413–441. ISSN 0040-604X.

[3] Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydée (January 1973). "A Note on Panche, Pijao, Pantagora (Palenque), Colima and Muzo". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (1): 47–51. doi:10.1086/465239. ISSN 0020-7071.

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