Tinigua language

Tinigua
Tiniguas
Tinigʷa
Pronunciation[tinigʷa]
Native toColombia
RegionMeta Department, Colombia; Serranía de la Macarena, Colombia
Ethnicity(undated figure of 1)
Native speakers
1 (2019)
Tiniguan
  • Tinigua
Language codes
ISO 639-3tit
Glottologtini1245
ELPTinigua

Tinigua (Tiniguas) is an endangered Tiniguan language spoken in Colombia that used to form a small language family with the now-extinct Pamigua language.

The name "Tinigua" comes from the words tiní 'old' and gwá 'as, like' and thus means 'language of the old'.