Callawalla

A language of Bolivia

ISO 639: caw
Alternate Names: Callahuaya, Callawaya, Kallawaya, Pohena
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).
Classification: Language isolate
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.
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Callawalla
Writing: Unwritten [Qaax].

Location: La Paz department: Charazani; highlands north of Lake Titicaca.