Páez
Nasa Yuwe
Páez is a language isolate spoken in Colombia, by about 140 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Páez (also Paez, Paes; or the autonym Nasa Yuwe 'Nasa language') is a language of Colombia, spoken by the Páez people. Crevels (2011) estimates 60,000 speakers out of an ethnic population of 140,000.
The language is spoken by the second largest Colombian indigenous community, the Páez, in the north of the Cauca Department, in southwestern Colombia. However, the people had to move to other departments of Colombia like Huila, Tolima and Valle del Cauca.
From Wikipedia · Páez language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Ya'nwe'wewa'te' maa nasapa ha'dacehk hi'pku up'hi', wëtte u'huwa'hi'pta', eena' eena' f'i'zewa' hi'pta', üus hi'pta' d'ik'the hi'pta' naapa'kate. Sa' h'ukaysa üus hi'pcehktha'w sa' pyakhna'we f'i'ze hi'ptha'w.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Páez
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | uʔj | |
| person | nasa* | |
| name | yase* | |
| eye | yafy* | |
| ear | thuwe* | |
| nose | ic* | |
| tooth | kith* | |
| tongue | Tune* | |
| hand | kuse* | |
| blood | e* | |
| bone | dyith* | |
| skin | khaT* | |
| knee | hyukwet* | |
| breast | CuC* | |
| liver | meky* | |
| water | yu' | |
| fire | ipy* | |
| sun | sek* | |
| star | a7muS* | |
| stone | kwet* | |
| mountain | vicwala* | |
| tree | fytu* | |
| leaf | ec* | |
| night | kus* | |
| dog | alku* | |
| fish | wendy* | |
| louse | es* | |
| one | teC* | |
| two | e7nz* | |
| I | andy* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Huallaga Huánuco QuechuaQuechuan9% alike
- Colombian IngaQuechuan9% alike
- Central Sierra MiwokMiwok-Costanoan9% alike
- RawatSino-Tibetan9% alike
- SulaAustronesian8% alike
- Tena Lowland QuichuaQuechuan8% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · paez1247 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · pbb