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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking.
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8,000

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Ethnic Population

19,079 (2001)

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Year of info

2012

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Colombia

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8,000

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2010

Location and Context

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Colombia

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1.1658, -77.0011

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Vulnerable

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33,200

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Population of Jungle (Lowland) Inga [inj]: "11,200 (2007 Organización de Cabildos Indígenas del Putumayo)." Population of (Highland) Inga [inb]: "18,000 in Colombia (Civallero 2008). Dispersed in various regions; adopted commerce as a survival strategy (Crevels 2007). Population total all countries: 22,000."

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2013

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Colombia

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Jungle (Lowland) Inga [inj]: "Putumayo, Cauca, and Narino departments, upper Caquetá and Putumayo rivers." (Highland) Inga [inb]: "Northwest Putumayo and southeast Narino departments; some in Cauca Department, Piamonte and Santa Rosa municipalities; 1,000 in Bogotá, some in regional capitals."

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Jungle (Lowland) Inga [inj]: "Putumayo, Cauca, and Narino departments, upper Caquetá and Putumayo rivers." (Highland) Inga [inb]: "Northwest Putumayo and southeast Narino departments; some in Cauca Department, Piamonte and Santa Rosa municipalities; 1,000 in Bogotá, some in regional capitals."

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Spanish

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33,200

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Ethnologue distinguishes 2 Inga languages: Inga (Highland Inga) [Inb]: 22,000 (18,000 in Colombia, 3000 elsewhere) Jungle Inga [inj]: 11,200

Year of info

2016

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Colombia

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Used by Kamsá as L2.

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33,200 total. Inga (Highland Inga) [inb]: 22,000 Jungle Inga [inj]: 11,200

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Camsá [kbh] use Inga as a second language.

Year of info

2017

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Colombia

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Latin (Spanish-based)

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Vulnerable

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19,079

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Instituto Caro y Cuervo 2000: 26,000; Arango y Sánchez 2004: 19,079; Censo 2005: 15,450

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2010

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Colombia

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2005

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Colombia

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1.0, -77.0

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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  5. The World Atlas of Language Structures
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  7. Diccionario Castellano-Inga, Gramática Quechua
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  8. The Inga Language
    Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1976. "The Inga Language." Mouton.
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    Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1976. "The Inga Language." 188: Mouton de Gruyter.
  10. Inga
    Levinsohn, S. and F. Tandioy Janasoy. 2000. "Inga." In Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva, edited by María Stella González de pérez and María Luisa Rodríguez de montes. 121-134. Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
  11. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)
    Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
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