Kogi language

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Kogi is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Kogi people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of northern Colombia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kogi language canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chibchan language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Cogui
Cágaba
Kaggaba
associatedWith Kogi cosmology
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta ecosystem
closelyRelatedTo Arhuaco language
Damana language
Wiwas language
continent South America
country Colombia
domain Andean and Caribbean foothills
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Kogi people
family Chibchan
glottocode kogi1248
hasFeature agglutinative morphology (tendency)
hasPhonology contrastive nasalization (approximate)
rich consonant inventory (relative to neighboring languages)
hasSpeakerCommunity Kogi settlements in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
hasTypology SOV word order (tendency)
intergenerationalTransmission partially maintained
iso639-3 kog
languageFamily Chibchan languages
linguisticArea Northern Colombia linguistic area
nativeName Kággaba
partOf Arwako linguistic group
preservationEfforts community-based language maintenance
documentation by linguists
region Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
spokenBy Kogi people of Colombia
linked to: Chibchan peoples

indigenous people
spokenIn Colombia
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
northern Colombia
status vulnerable
subfamily Arwako–Chibchan
linked to: Chibchan
transmission primarily oral
usedFor daily communication within Kogi communities
oral tradition
traditional religious practices
usedIn community governance
ritual instruction
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chibchan languages languageFamilyOf Kogi language
Kogi people language Kogi language
Arhuaco language closelyRelatedTo Kogi language
Kogi language Kogi language