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  SOUTH 
  AMERICAN 
  INDIANS 
  [B. 
  A. 
  E. 
  Bull. 
  143 
  

  

  The 
  Malta 
  language 
  is 
  distinguished 
  in 
  the 
  document 
  mentioned 
  

   above 
  (Sublevacion 
  y 
  castigo 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  1635). 
  

  

  These 
  languages 
  disappeared, 
  perhaps 
  by 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  18th 
  

   century, 
  principally 
  because 
  Spanish 
  and 
  Quechua 
  had 
  been 
  forced 
  on 
  

   the 
  people 
  by 
  the 
  conquistadors 
  and 
  the 
  missionaries 
  as 
  the 
  medium 
  

   for 
  intercourse 
  and 
  evangelization, 
  as 
  we 
  have 
  attempted 
  to 
  demon- 
  

   strate 
  in 
  a 
  study 
  on 
  the 
  Quechua 
  or 
  Runa 
  Simi 
  linguistic 
  family 
  (Ortiz, 
  

   1940, 
  pp. 
  106-22). 
  The 
  result 
  of 
  this 
  linguistic 
  struggle 
  was 
  that 
  

   only 
  two 
  very 
  small 
  remnants 
  of 
  native 
  dialects 
  now 
  exist 
  in 
  south- 
  

   western 
  Colombia. 
  These 
  are: 
  Coaiquer, 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  Barbacoa 
  sub- 
  

   group 
  of 
  the 
  Chibchan 
  linguistic 
  family; 
  Ingano, 
  a 
  Quechua 
  dialect; 
  and 
  

   Coche, 
  provisionally 
  regarded 
  as 
  an 
  independent 
  family 
  (Ortiz, 
  1941, 
  

   pp. 
  25-55). 
  

  

  BIBLIOGRAPHY 
  

  

  Anonymous, 
  1934 
  b; 
  Cieza 
  de 
  Le6n, 
  1923 
  b; 
  Jij6n 
  y 
  Caamafio, 
  1936-38; 
  Lunardi, 
  

   1936; 
  Ortiz, 
  1935, 
  1937 
  d, 
  1938 
  c, 
  1940, 
  1941; 
  Paz 
  y 
  Mifio, 
  1940-42; 
  Uhle, 
  1933. 
  

  

  