Totoro or Totoró is a Barbacoan language formerly spoken in southwestern Colombia, in Cauca Department by the Totoró people, who number about 1,000 people. The language went extinct by 2016, with just four known speakers in 1998.

Classification

Totoro, along with Guambiano and the long-extinct Coconuco language, form a subgroup of the Barbacoan languages. These language varieties are sometimes considered to be dialects of one Coconucan language.

Within the Barbacoan family, Coconucan and Awa Pit constitute the northern branch of it.

Bibliography

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