Social:Malibu languages

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Short description: Extinct language group of Colombia
Malibu
Geographic
distribution
Department of Magdalena, Colombia
Linguistic classificationunclassified
Subdivisions
  • Malibú
  • Mocana
Glottolog(not evaluated)
mali1242  (Malibu proper)[1]
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Pre-contact distribution of the Malibu languages

The Malibu languages are a poorly attested group of dead languages once spoken along the Magdalena River in Colombia. Material exists only for two of the numerous languages mentioned in the literature: Malibú and Mocana.

Classification

The Malibu languages have previously been grouped into a single family with the Chimila language.[2] However, Chimila is now known to be a Chibchan language,[3] and Adelaar & Muysken regard the grouping of Chimila with the Malibu languages as "without any factual basis".[4]

Family division

Rivet initially listed three Malibu tribes, each with its own language:[5]

  • Malibú,[6] spoken near the Magdalena River from Tamalameque to Tenerife
  • Mocaná, spoken by the Mokaná people in the region east of Cartagena (Rivet 1947b; Simón 1882-1892, vol. 4, p. 298, only two words.)
  • Pacabuey, also known as Sompallón or Laguna Malibu, spoken near the Zapatoza lagoon (Unattested.)

To this list, Loukotka adds six more languages, all of which are unattested (excluding Chimila):[2]

  • Papale, spoken on the Fundación River
  • Coanoa or Guanoa, spoken on the Cesar River
  • Zamirua, spoken on the Ariguaní River
  • Cospique, spoken somewhere in the Department of Magdalena
  • Mompox, spoken near the city of Santa Cruz de Mompox
  • Calamari, spoken along the coast south of Cartagena to Coveñas

Vocabulary

Rivet gives a brief list of words from Malibú and Mocana, but does not distinguish the two languages.[5] A selection of these is provided below:

  • tahana – manzanilla tree
  • malibu – chief
  • man – small boat
  • ytaylaco / yteylaco / yntelas / ytaylas – devil, deity
  • entaha / enbutaccassava

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Malibu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mali1242. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 244–5. https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk. 
  3. Gordon, Raymond G., ed (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com. 
  4. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7. https://archive.org/details/languagesandesca00adel. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Rivet, Paul (1947). "Les indiens Malibú". Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris 36: 139–144. doi:10.3406/jsa.1947.2360. 
  6. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Malibu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mali1242.