Coconuco Guambiano is a dialect cluster of Colombia

Colombia

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. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco, are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken (2004) believe that they are best treated as a single language.

Totoro may be extinct; it had 4 speakers in 1998 out of an ethnic population of 4,000. Guambiano, on the other hand, is vibrant and growing.

Coconucan was for a time mistakenly included in a spurious Paezan

Paezan languages

Paezan may be any of several language-family proposals of Colombia and Ecuador named after the Paez language.-Proposed genealogical relations:...

language family, due to a purported "Moguex" (Guambiano) vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano (Curnow 1998).

Phonology

The Guambiano inventory is as follows (Curnow & Liddicoat 1998:386).

Vowels

	front	central	back
close	i		u
mid	e	ə
back		a

Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Occlusive		p	t			k
Affricate				tʂ	tʃ
Fricative			s	ʂ	ʃ
Liquid			r l		ʎ
Semi-vowel		w			j