| 释义 |
Chibchan|ˈtʃɪbtʃən|
[f. prec. + -an.]
The language of the Chibcha people. Also as adj., designating a group of related S. American languages of which it is the principal (Webster 1934).
1910Encycl. Brit. I. 811/2 The [linguistic] families of..South America are here given in alphabetical order..Chibchan. 1950E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 133 Chibcha or Chibchan is an extinct language of Colombia. 1950J. A. Mason in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 175 Formerly almost all the languages of highland and coastal Colombia were considered to belong to the Chibchan group, but recent opinion assigns the Chocó and most of the other groups of northern Colombia, except for the Bogotá Chibcha and the Arhuaco region, to the Carib. |