Kogi language

Kogi (Cogui), or Kagaba (Cágaba) (Cogui: Kággaba), is a Chibchan language of Colombia. The Kogi people are almost entirely monolingual, and maintain the only unconquered Andean civilization.

Kogi
Kággaba
Native to	Colombia
Region	Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Ethnicity	Kogi
Native speakers	9,900 (2004)[1] nearly all monolingual
Language family	Chibchan Arwako–Chimila Arwako Kogi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kog
Glottolog	cogu1240
ELP	Cogui[2]

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Close-mid	e ẽ		o
Mid		ə
Open	a ã

[3]

Consonants

		Bilabial		Alveolar			Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	geminated	plain	geminated	lateral			plain	geminated
Stop	voiceless	p		t	t:				k	k:	ʔ
	voiced	b	b:	d	d:				g	g:
Fricative	voiceless			s			ʃ		x		h
	voiced			z		ɮ	ʒ
Nasal		m		n					ŋ
Approximant								j

References

1. Kogi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Endangered Languages Project data for Cogui.
3. "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-10.