Coconucan language
Coconuco also known as Guambiano is a dialect cluster of Colombia spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people. Though the three varieties, Guambiano, moribund Totoró, and the extinct Coconuco, are traditionally called languages, Adelaar & Muysken 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 language family, due to a purported "Moguex" vocabulary that turned out to be a mix of Páez and Guambiano.Phonology
The Guambiano inventory is as follows.
| front | central | back |
| close | i | | u |
| mid | e | ə | |
| back | | a | |
