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Andoque

Andoque is a language isolate spoken in Colombia, by about 370 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

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Andoque · 0.5°S 72.1°W

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Andoque is a language spoken by a few hundred Andoque people in Colombia, and is in decline. There were 10,000 speakers in 1908, down to 370 a century later, of which at most 50 are monolingual. The remaining speakers live in four residential areas in the region of the Anduche River, downstream from Araracuara, Solano, Caquetá, Colombia; the language is no longer spoken in Peru. Most speakers shifted to Spanish.

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Words in Andoque

MeaningWordRomanization
personhoiho*
nameti*
eye7ako*
earbei*
nosep3ta*
toothkoni*
tongueSon3*
handdomi*
bloodduSe*
bonetan3*
skintaSi*
breast5ee*
livertu*
waterdu'u
fireopa*
stonepiSi*
leafpu*
nightho7poo*
oneoiSide*
twooohoma*
Io73*
youha73*
weke3*
drinkko7*
seepo7k3*
hearomonotoa5e*
dieZi*
come3*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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