Maps of Bocotá
Central American Languages
Central American Languages
Source:
This map is recreated from the 'Teaching Materials' area of the Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) project, a joint project of the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, the Ústav starého Predního východu of Charles University, Prague, the Institut for Almen og Anvendt Sprogvidenskab of the University of Kopenhagen and the Departamento de Filología Clásica y Románica (Filología Griega) de la Universidad de Oviedo.
Contact: Jost Gippert, gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de, TITUS
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Jost Gippert, Frankfurt a/M 1999-2003. This server provides teaching materials concerning Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages. Those materials that can be downloaded via http can be used freely for teaching purposes, provided that they are quoted as sources and the name(s) of the editor(s) and the date of last changes are indicated. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder.
Date Digitized: 15 June 2011
Map Description:
This map depicts the languages of Central America, spanning southern California to Colombia. Includes three language isolates as well as languages from the Mayan, Oto-Manguean, Chibchan, Uto-Aztecan, Choco, Totonacan, Arawakan, Yuman, Mazatecan, Misumalpan, and Mixe-Zoquean families. Also note that the Lenca language's classification is currently disputed.
Contact: Jost Gippert, gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de, TITUS
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Jost Gippert, Frankfurt a/M 1999-2003. This server provides teaching materials concerning Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages. Those materials that can be downloaded via http can be used freely for teaching purposes, provided that they are quoted as sources and the name(s) of the editor(s) and the date of last changes are indicated. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder.
Date Digitized: 15 June 2011
Map Description:
This map depicts the languages of Central America, spanning southern California to Colombia. Includes three language isolates as well as languages from the Mayan, Oto-Manguean, Chibchan, Uto-Aztecan, Choco, Totonacan, Arawakan, Yuman, Mazatecan, Misumalpan, and Mixe-Zoquean families. Also note that the Lenca language's classification is currently disputed.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.
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Chibcha-Misumalpan at the Time of Contact
Chibcha-Misumalpan at the Time of Contact
Data Sources:Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. "Meso-America". Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 82. Oxford: Routledge.
"Chibchan: Composite 2008." MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: 15 June 2011
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Chibcha-Misumalpan languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded. As specified by Asher and Moseley, the time of contact varied for each language; most of the coastal languages were first identified during the 16th and 17th centuries, although some languages in the interior of South America became known much more recently during the 20th century (Kaufman 2007).
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Central and South America: Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.
