Muisquismos en la geografía bogotana, expresiones e interacciones de la lengua muisca con las comunidades cercanas

Abstract

In Latin America, throughout colonization, various languages ​​of ancient indigenous communities have been changing, intertwining, transforming, but also, decisively, have been elided or marginalized and even eliminated from history because of their conceptions, visions and cosmogony different from those of the invaders. Terms like “chingue” or “cuchuco” have origins in and/or are entirely within our city; these are called Muisca words, words of the community that have slowly been absorbed and reinterpreted, as have the names of the community's sacred places (Chía, Bacatá) and their gods (Bachué, Bochica, Chiminigagua). Throughout this research, I want to focus on compiling significant words and expressions from the Muisca community. They express in their Muisca words the names of their deities and relevant places, as well as grammatical borrowings, which are part of their tradition and worldview. It is through these that we, as Spanish speakers, can gain a glimpse into their perspective of the world, the many different shades of green they possess, and the many places, medicines, and flavors that we probably don't know. In this document and subsequent results, I intend to primarily encourage the conservation and enhancement of these same concepts of the Muisca indigenous community in the Cundiboyacense highlands, encompassing terms specific to the community that have been lost or are untranslatable for Spanish speakers, but also collecting and reclaiming the original meaning of Muisca words and subsequently seeking to construct new terms (neologisms) that we can connect with contemporary terms such as "internet" or "photography" based on a grammar already established in the Muisca language.