chibcha in English
noun
1
a member of an indigenous people of Colombia whose well-developed political structure was destroyed by Europeans.
The original inhabitants of the great plateaus of the Andean highlands in central Colombia were known as Chibchas .
2
the extinct Chibchan language of the Chibcha.
There are still twenty-five surviving indigenous languages belonging to three linguistic families: Caribans, Arawak, and Chibcha .
adjective
1
relating to the Chibcha or their language.
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1. The second section discusses the structure and process in Chibcha Chiefdoms of the Colombian altiplano.
2. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotype diversity was determined for 63 Chibcha-speaking Kuna Amerinds sampled widely across their geographic range in eastern Panamá
3. The people inhabiting the Bogotá savanna in the late 15th century were the Muisca, speaking Muysccubun, a member of the Chibcha language family.