Kogi (Cogui), or Kagaba (Cágaba) ( kog, Kággaba), is a
Chibchan language of
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. The
Kogi people are almost entirely monolingual, and maintain the only unconquered
Andean civilization.
Phonology
* /e, ẽ/ can also be heard as
�, ɛ̃when in unstressed syllables.
* Affricate sounds
s, dz, tʃ, dʒ
S-comma (majuscule: Ș, minuscule: ș) is a letter which is part of the Romanian alphabet, used to represent the sound , the voiceless postalveolar fricative (like ''sh'' in ''shoe'').
History
The letter was proposed in the ''Buda Lexicon'' ...
are heard when sibilant sounds /s, z, ʃ, ʒ/ precede /n/. If /t, d/ precede /i/ then they are realized as affricates
ʃ, dʒ
* /n/ before /i/ may be realized as a palatal
�
References
Languages of Colombia
Chibchan languages
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