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PAREDES CISNEROS, SANTIAGO. Pijao Language as Lingua Franca in the Governorships of Popayán and Neiva, 16th-17th Centuries. Front. hist. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.1, pp.40-66. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.311.

Through the qualitative analysis of archival sources on the Pijao Indians and their language, and information that allows to contextualize those materials, this article aims to reconsider the group's role in the configuration of the Colonial society and to transcend the warlike character often attributed to them in archival documents and historiography. The study proposes that analyzing words related to the group, and how other Native communities as well as Spaniards used them, suggests that their language was frequently employed by societies living in the governorships of Popayán and Neiva in the early colonial period, which implies the Pijao assumed an important political role in the warfare context.

Palabras clave : Pijao Indians; Pijao language; Buga; Páez Indians; 16^th Century; 17^th Century.

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