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Cofán

Cofán is a language isolate spoken in Colombia and Ecuador, by about 1,700 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Cofán · 0.3°N 77.1°W

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

Cofán or Kofán, known in the language itself as Aʼingae, is the primary language of the Cofán people, an indigenous group whose ancestral territory lies at the interface between the Andean foothills and Amazonia in the northeast of Ecuador (Sucumbíos province) and southern Colombia (Putumayo and Nariño provinces), who call themselves the Aʼi. Although still robustly learned by children in Ecuadorian communities, Cofán is considered an 'endangered' language with estimates of around 1,500 native speakers.

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Words in Cofán

MeaningWordRomanization
persona7i*
nameinise*
eyeco7pe*
earcosina*
nosecopa7th3*
tooththe7tho*
tonguemedzadza7pa*
handtibe*
bloodahapa*
bonec37tha*
skinthono*
kneec3tha7Co*
breastCo*
liversasa*
watertsa'ccu
firesi7ge*
sunCixa*
staro7pe*
stonepat3*
mountainkhotha7kho*
treekini7kho*
leafkhakhe*
nightkose*
dogai*
fishab3*
lousesisi*
onepae*
twokhoagi7kho*
I5a*
youke*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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