Malibu languages

Malibu
Geographic
distribution:
Department of Magdalena, Colombia
Linguistic classification: unclassified
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 extinct 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]

To this list, Loukotka adds six more languages (excluding Chimila):[2]

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:

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malibu proper". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. 1 2 Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 244–5.
  3. Gordon, Raymond G., ed. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). SIL International.
  4. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-521-36275-X.
  5. 1 2 Rivet, Paul (1947). "Les indiens Malibú". Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris 36: 139–144. doi:10.3406/jsa.1947.2360.
  6. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malibu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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