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Pijao (Piajao, Pinao) is an unclassified indigenous American language that was spoken in the villages of Ortega, Coyaima (Koyai, Tupe) and Natagaima in the Magdalena River Valley of Colombia until the 1950s.

Pijao
Native to	Colombia
Region	Tolima
Ethnicity	Pijao people
Extinct	1950s
Language family	unclassified (Maipurean?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pij
Glottolog	pija1235

Subdivisions

Pijao subtribes reported by Rivet (1943, 1944) and cited in Mason (1950):[1]

Aype, Paloma, Ambeina, Amoya, Tumbo, Coyaima, Poina (Yaporoge), Mayto (Maito, Marto), Mola, Atayma (Otaima), Tuamo, Bulira, Ocaima, Behuni (Beuni, Biuni), Ombecho, Anaitoma, Totumo, Natagaima, Pana (Pamao), Guarro, Hamay, Zeraco, Lucira, and Tonuro.

Classification

A small vocabulary list was collected in 1943; only 30 Pijao words and expressions are known.

The few words which resemble Carib are thought to be loans; toponyms in Pijao country are also Carib. Marshall & Seijas (1973) did not detect significative connections between Pijao and other unclassified languages of the area: Colima, Muzo, Pantágora, and Panche, but these are even more poorly attested than Pijao.

Jolkesky (2016) also notes that there are lexical similarities with the Witoto-Okaina languages.[2]

Vocabulary

Notes

References

На других языках

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- [en] Pijao language

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[ru] Пихао

Пихао (Piajao, Pijao) — мёртвый неклассифицированный индейский язык, на котором говорил народ пихао, проживающий в долине реки Магдалена в Колумбии до 1950-х годов. В настоящее время народ живёт в департаменте Толима.

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