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Where is Guambiano spoken?

Guambiano (namuy wam) is a Barbacoan language, spoken in Colombia. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Guambiano is spoken

Guambiano is spoken in one country: Colombia.

Country
Colombia

Guambiano has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Guambiano?

Wikidata gives about 21,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Guambiano sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Guambiano as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Barbacoan
  2. Coconucan
  3. Guambiano

More about Guambiano

Codes: ISO 639-3 gum, Glottolog guam1248. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Guambiano

Where is Guambiano spoken?

Guambiano is spoken in Colombia. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Guambiano?

Wikidata gives about 21,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Guambiano in?

Glottolog places Guambiano in the Barbacoan family, in the branch Coconucan.

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