La Paz Department: Charazani; highlands north of Lake Titicaca
Native speakers
None[1] 10–20 as 2nd language[citation needed]
Language family
Puquina
Kallawaya
Official status
Official language in
Bolivia[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
caw
Glottolog
call1235
ELP
Kallawaya
Kallawaya, also Callahuaya or Callawalla, is an endangered, secret, mixed language in Bolivia; another name sometimes used for the language is Pohena. It is spoken by the Kallawaya people, a group of traditional itinerant healers in the Andes in their medicinal healing practice living in Charazani, the highlands north of Lake Titicaca,[3] and Tipuani.[4]
^Kallawaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"Constitución política del Estado" (PDF) (in Spanish). Gaceta Oficial de Bolivia. 2009-02-07. p. 2. Retrieved 23 November 2022. Artículo 5.1: Son idiomas oficiales del Estado el castellano y todos los idiomas de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario [sic] campesinos, que son el aymara, [...], machajuyai-kallawaya, [...] y zamuco.
^Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Bolivia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
^Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
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