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Kallawaya, also Callahuaya or Callawalla is an endangered, secret, mixed language in Bolivia. It is spoken by the Kallawaya
people, a group of traditional itinerant healers in the Andes in their medicinal healing practice. Kallawaya is a mixed language.
The grammar is partially Quechua in morphology, but most of its words are from either unknown sources or from an otherwise
extinct language family, Pukina. Pukina was abandoned in favor of Quechua, Aymara, and Spanish. Kallawaya is also a secret
language, passed only by father to son, or grandfather to grandson, or rarely, to daughters if a practitioner has no sons.
It is not used in normal family dialogue. Although its use is primarily ritual, used secretly for initiated men, Kallawaya
may be a part of everyday conversation between those familiar with it. Kallawaya was one of the subjects of Ironbound Films'
2008 American documentary film The Linguists, in which two linguists attempted to document several moribund languages. Bolivians
refer to the region where the speakers live as Qollahuayas, meaning place of the medicines, because the Kallawaya are renowned
herbalists. Since they treat or cure with plants, minerals, animal products, and rituals, peasants refer to the speakers as
Qolla kapachayuh, meaning lords of the medicine bag. |
Names (more)[cs] Kallawaya[en] Callawalla [fr] Kallawaya [ko] 칼라와야어 [lt] Kaljavajų kalba [ru] Кальяуайя |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : cawLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cawhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:caw More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: cawFreebase ISO 639-3 : caw GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |