Muysccubun

E167583

Muysccubun is the indigenous language of the Muisca people of the Colombian Andes, historically used across the central highlands of present-day Colombia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Muysccubun canonical 10

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chibchan language
indigenous language
language
alternativeName Muisca language
Muysca
associatedWith Muisca Confederation
linked to: Muisca

Muisca mythology
linked to: Muisca
containsLoanwordsIn Colombian Spanish
country Colombia
culturalRole medium of traditional knowledge transmission
vehicle of Muisca cultural identity
declineCause Spanish colonization
language shift to Spanish
documentedBy Spanish colonial chroniclers
missionaries in New Granada
endonym Muysccubun (meaning ‘people’s language’ or ‘language of the people’)
ethnicGroup Muisca
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV basic word order (subject–object–verb)
agglutinative morphology
evidentiality markers (in some descriptions)
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasISOCode none (no ISO 639-3 code assigned as of 2024)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between aspirated and unaspirated consonants (in some analyses)
historicalRegion central highlands of present-day Colombia
historicalUse early colonial period
pre-Columbian era
influencedBy contact with Spanish
languageFamily Chibchan
Magdalena subgroup
lexicalInfluenceOn Colombian Spanish place names
toponyms in Boyacá
toponyms in Cundinamarca
region Altiplano Cundiboyacense
Colombian Andes
revitalizationEffortIn Bogotá region
linked to: Cundinamarca region

Boyacá
linked to: Boyacá Department

Cundinamarca
linked to: Cundinamarca region
spokenBy Muisca people
linked to: Muisca
status moribund
revitalized language
timePeriodOfMajorUse 16th and 17th centuries
before Spanish conquest of the Muisca
usedIn Muisca oral tradition
Muisca religion
linked to: Muisca

Muisca rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (10)

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

Funza etymologyLanguage Muysccubun
Muisca language Muysccubun
Chía nameLanguage Muysccubun
subject linked to: Chía (Muisca moon goddess)
Muysca spokeLanguage Muysccubun
zaque languageOfTitle Muysccubun
Tundama languageSpoken Muysccubun
subject linked to: tundama
Bachué languageOfName Muysccubun
Hunza languageSpoken Muysccubun