| Callawalla | ||
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| Spoken in: | Bolivia | |
| Total speakers: | 10-20 | |
| Language family: | Mixed Language Quechua-Puquina Callawalla |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | caw | |
| ISO 639-3: | caw | |
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Callawalla (also Callahuaya or Kallawaya) is an endangered indigenous language spoken in Bolivia, related to Quechua. Kallawaya is an endangered secret mixed language in Bolivia. It is spoken by the Kallawaya people, a group of traditional itinerant healers in the Andes It is used only as a special language by witch-doctors, having no native speakers. It was a language spoken by the herbalists of Incan emperors. They live in Bautista Saavedra Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia. Bautista Saavedra is a Province in the La Paz Department Bolivia. The Republic of Bolivia (República de Bolivia) named after Simón Bolívar, is a Landlocked country in central South America. The province is located north of the Cordillera Real (Oriental) in the Apolobamba Mountains' foothills, an area also known as Cordillera de Carabaya. [1]
Bolivians refer to the region where the speakers live as "Qollahuayas," meaning "place of the medicines," because the Callahuaya are renowned Andean herbalists. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. 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. "
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Endangered language
It was once spoken in the Bolivian highlands, especially in the region north of Lake Titicaca. The Altiplano ( Spanish for high plain) where the Andes are at their widest is the most extensive area of High plateau on earth outside Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Bolivia and Peru. In its pure version it is now extinct. A corrupt version known as "Kollyawaya jargon" is now spoken by a few (<10) people in the Charazani area as a second language. All the speakers are ethnic Quechua and all are men; women and children don't speak the language. Quechua ( Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America.
Callahuaya was closest to Puquina and Bolivian Quechua. Puquina is an Extinct language and Language isolate, which was spoken by the ancient Inca in the region surrounding Lake Titicaca ( Southern Quechua ( Spanish: Quechua sureño; Southern Quechua Qhichwa or Runa Simi) is an idealized indigenous Literary With Puquina disappearing in the seventeenth century, the Callahuaya continued using Puquina words within Quechua grammar when male herbalists spoke about plants and medicine. It is a secret language, in that it's not taught to women or outsiders. Its purpose is for curing sickness, machai-juvai, also referred to as language of colleagues. There are an estimated 12,000 words. [1]
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Notes
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