Cueva language
| Cueva | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Panama |
| Region | Darién |
| Ethnicity | Cueva people |
| Extinct | 16th century |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | cuev1238 |
Cueva was an Indigenous language of Panama, now extinct, with limited attestation and often misclassified within linguistic studies.[2] The Cueva people experienced a significant population decline between 1510 and 1535 due to conflicts, diseases, and the effects of Spanish colonization. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the Guna had migrated into the former Cueva territory, repopulating the area.
Classification
[edit]Loukotka[3] mistakenly identified a Guna vocabulary from the Darién as Cueva, leading to confusion of Cueva with Guna in subsequent literature,[4][5][6] with some authors reporting that Cueva was a dialect of or ancestral to the Guna language.[7] The Guna language and culture are very different from the Cueva.
Loewen[8] and Constenla Umaña & Margery Peña[9] have suggested a connection between Cueva and the Chocoan family.
References
[edit]- ^ Baquero, Alvaro (1987), "Los de la lengua de Cueva: Los grupos indígenas del istmo oriental en la época de la conquista española – por Kathleen Romoli (review)", Boletín Museo del Oro (in Spanish), 19, Museo del Oro: 141–142, retrieved 2025-03-20 – via Banrepcultural
- ^ Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel (2024). La lengua cueva (Panamá, siglo XVI). LINCOM Studies in native american linguistics. München: LINCOM. ISBN 978-3-96939-174-7.
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). Ethnologue: languages of the world (16 ed.). Dallas, Tex: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-216-6.
- ^ Whitehead 1999.
- ^ Greenberg 1987, p. 382.
- ^ Adelaar & Muysken 2004, p. 62.
- ^ Loewen 1963.
- ^ Constela Umaña & Margery Peña 1991.
Bibliography
[edit]- Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-48685-2.
- Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of native America. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York Oxford: Oxford university press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5.
- Constela Umaña, Adolfo; Margery Peña, Enrique (1991). "Elementos de fonología comparada Chocó*". Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 17 (1–2): 137. doi:10.15517/rfl.v17i1-2.20972. ISSN 2215-2628.
- Greenberg, Joseph Harold (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford, Calif: Stanford university press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1315-3.
- Loewen, Jacob A. (October 1963). "Choco II: Phonological Problems". International Journal of American Linguistics. 29 (4): 357–371. doi:10.1086/464751. ISSN 0020-7071.
- Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA. p. 239. ISBN 9780879031077.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Romoli, Kathleen (1987). Los de la lengua de cueva: los grupos indígenas del istmo oriental en la época de la conquista española (in Spanish). Instituto Colombiano de Antropología. ISBN 978-958-601-116-7.
- Whitehead, Neil L. (1999), Salomon, Frank; Schwartz, Stuart B. (eds.), "The Crises and Transformations of Invaded Societies: The Caribbean (1492–1580)", The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Volume 3: South America, The Cambridge history of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 864–903, ISBN 978-0-521-63075-7, retrieved 2025-10-11
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