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'Camsá' (also 'Sibundoy', 'Coche', 'Kamsá', 'Kamemtxa', 'Kamse', 'Camëntsëá') is a language isolate of Colombia.

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Genealogical relations

Bibliography

Genealogical relations

Camsá has been linked with various hypothetical phylum proposals including Macro-Chibchan.

Bibliography

★ Campbell, Lyle. (1997). ''American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America''. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.

★ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). ''Ethnologue: Languages of the world'' (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).

★ Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), ''Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages'' (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-2927-0414-3.

★ Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), ''Atlas of the world's languages'' (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.

★ McDowell, John Holmes. (1994). ''“So Wise Were Our Elders”: Mythic Narratives of the Kamsá.'' Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 0813118263 (alk. paper) (Contains mythic and legendary in Camsá with interlinear morphemic glossing and English translations.)