Callawalla
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A language of Bolivia
Alternate Names
Callahuaya, Callawaya, Kallawaya, Pohena
User Population
No known L1 speakers. Last known speakers survived into the first decade of the 2000s.
Location
La Paz department: Charazani; highlands north of Lake Titicaca.
Language Status
9 (Dormant).
Dialects
Seems to have Quechua affixes and syntactic patterns, but distinctive roots from a dialect of the extinct Puquina language.
Typology
26 consonants and 6 vowels (3 long, 3 short).
Language Use
Ostensibly a specialized language used by successors to the herb doctors of Inca emperors. Probably extinct. Shifted to Spanish [spa].
Language Development
Dictionary.