Duit language
| Duit | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Boyacå, Colombia |
| Region | Altiplano Cundiboyacense |
| Ethnicity | Muisca |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Only numerals | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | duit1239 |
 The second-most southern yellow dot indicates roughly the area where Duit was spoken | |
Duit is an extinct Chibcha language formerly spoken by the Muisca of present-day BoyacĂĄ, Colombia. The language appears in the modern name of the pre-Columbian settlement and last ruler Tundama; Duitama.[1]
Description
[edit]The language is only known from one fragment analysed by scholar Ezequiel Uricoechea in 1871. The linguist mentioned that the analysed text was part of a larger work that hitherto has not been found. From the short text it was clear that the Duit language differed slightly from the main version of Chibcha, Muysccubun, spoken by the Muisca on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense.[2]
As the Muisca did not have a script, only for their numerals, written Duit language texts do not exist.[3]
Comparison to Muisca and numerals
[edit]| English | Duit | Muisca | Numerals as noted by Acosta, Humboldt and Zerda |
|---|---|---|---|
| one | atia | ata |  |
| two | bocha | bosa | |
| three | meia | mica | |
| Sun | sa | sĂșa | |
| Moon | tia | chĂa | |
| star | cĂșrcha | fagua[4] | |
| Territory | coga | quyca |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- â (in Spanish) Biography Cacique Tundama - Pueblos Originarios
- â Uricoechea, Ezequiel (1871), GramĂĄtica, vocabulario, catecismo y confesionario de la lengua chibcha, segĂșn antiguos manuscritos anĂłnimos e inĂ©ditos
- â Izquierdo Peña, 2009
- â (in Spanish) fagua - Muysccubun online dictionary
Bibliography
[edit]- Izquierdo Peña, Manuel Arturo (2009), The Muisca Calendar: An approximation to the timekeeping system of the ancient native people of the northeastern Andes of Colombia (PhD), UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al, pp. 1â170, arXiv:0812.0574
