Chibchan languages show heterogeneous morphosyntactic strategies for person indexing: whereas some languages show synthetic structures, others have more analytic strategies, yet others have a mix of the two.
The Chibchan languages of Panama include (from west to east) Teribe, Ngabare, Buglere, and Kuna.
4) is identified as being filled by speakers of Mobe, Doraske, and Bokota (in the west) and Kuna (in the east), all Chibchan languages.
of Hawaii) and Grondona (Eastern Michigan U.) have brought together 11 contributions pertaining to the history, classification, and endangerment of the indigenous languages of South America as well as typological characteristics, phonetics and phonology, and some specifics of
Chibchan languages, the Cariban family, Tupian, Quechuan and Aymaran, and languages of the Chaco and southern cone.
Chibchan languages are spoken in an area that extends from Honduras in the west to Venezuela in the east (see Map 1).
In section 2, I will give some specific evidence for diachronic developments in different Chibchan languages. In section 3, it is argued that from a synchronic point of view, the morphological complexity of verbal person marking correlates with cognitive accessibility in some Chibchan languages.