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Páez

A language of Colombia

ISO 639-3: pbb

Population	77,400 (2000 SIL), increasing. 35,700 to 41,650 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 138,501.
Region	Central Andes Range near Popayán, Cauca.
Language map	Northern Colombia
Dialects	Pitayo, Paniquita (Panikita).
Classification	Language isolate
Language use	Many pass the language on, but some prefer to have children use only Spanish. Religious services, commerce. Most also use Spanish, the predominant language of instruction in schools.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Some attempts, mainly literacy courses, have been made to promote the language. Some private primary schools teach reading and writing in Páez along with Spanish. Taught in secondary schools. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1980.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Peasant agriculturalists. Christian, syncretism.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ARBELÁEZ G., Jorge; MONTES U., Bernando, translators. 1973. Sistemas fonológicos de idiomas colombianos 2.  

BREND, Ruth M., editor. 1985. From phonology to discourse: Studies in six Colombian languages.  

CRUZ M., Angel; GERDEL, Florence L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., authors. 1976. "Texto páez: El xamán páez."  

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1973. "Fonemas del páez."  

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1973. "Paez phonemes."

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1983. "La palabra y la frase fonológica en páez con alusión especial al tono y al acento."

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1985. "Páez: Pitch and stress in the phonological word and phrase."  

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1990. Fonologia del Paez (Revisada 1989).  

GERDEL, Florence L., author; MORALES, Constancia, translator. 1979. "Paez."  

GERDEL, Florence L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., authors. 1976. "Páez discourse, paragraph and sentence structure."  

GERDEL, Florence L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., authors. 1981. "La estructura del discurso, el párrafo y la oración en páez."  

GERDEL, Florence L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., authors. 1981. Estudios en Paez.  

GERDEL, Florence L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., authors. 1983. Diccionario: páez-español / español-páez.  

LONGACRE, Robert E.; WOODS, Frances M., editors. 1976. Discourse grammar: Studies in indigenous languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, 1.  

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1972. ¿Cómo se dice en páez? (Gramática pedagógica páez-castellano).  

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1981. "El baile de la chucha: Texto del páez."  

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1986. Gramática páez.  

Vernacular Publications

ABCDty piyayaʼ tacjega. 1987.  

Animales. 1983.  

Cueʼsh yatsga nasa wagastyi cnayni Talaga Peñonte. 1978.

Fiʼjaga nasa yuwete. 1973.

Fiʼjaga nasa yuwete. 1976.  

Fiʼjyaʼ piyaaga nasa yuwete I. 1978.

Guía del maestro para la cartilla Leeĩyya' piyaaga nasa yuwete (Aprendamos a leer en páez) I. n.d.

Leeĩyaʼ piyaaga nasa yuwete [II]. 1974.

Leeĩyaʼ piyaaga nasa yuwete I (Aprendamos a leer en páez). 1978.

Leeĩyaʼ piyaaga nasa yuwete II. 1976.

Lẽeyya' piyaaga nasa yuwete 1. 1987.  

Lẽeyya' piyaaga nasa yuwete II (Aprendamos a leer en páez). 1986.

Leĩya' piyaaga nasa yuwete II (Aprendamos a leer en páez). 1989.  

Leĩya', fi'jya', piisaya'va piyanii libru e'nz añutewe'sh. 1991.  

Luuchweʼsh jypaʼyacyni. 1990.

Naa tajcya' paezwe'sh jiyunisata'. 1987.  

Nasaʼ wagas yuwete leĩyaʼ piyanii libru (Cartilla de lectura (transición del páez al español)). 1989.  

Nasa yuwete ew fi'jya' pu'chsa (La ortografía páez). 1989.  

Nasa yuwete ew fiʼjyaʼ puʼchsa. 1985.

Nasa yuwete leeĩya' piyawa'ja's tacjni libru. 1987.  

Naʼwẽ yũuwaʼjaʼ ãtsãʼyaʼmée. 1972.

Teech nasa fiʼnzeni. 1978.

Wee aftosa yaasesa: Naʼwẽ yũuwaʼjaʼ claaty wee aftosa paʼjweʼshte. 1976.

Wẽt fi'nzewa'ja's pta'shni (Como conservar la salud: un manual de higiene en páez). 1985.