Home / All articles / P / Panche language Panche language From Mediated Wiki, the community-governed knowledge commons f Facebook PancheFamilycolorcaribanIso 3noneGlottopanc1242Familyunclassified (Cariban?)EthnicityPancheStatesColombiaRegionCundinamarca Department, Tolima DepartmentExtinct? The Panche language is an unclassified – and possibly unclassifiable – language formerly spoken in Colombia. It may have been Cariban.[1] According to Pedro Simón, the word panche in their own Panche language means "cruel" and "murderer".[2] Vocabulary Panche vocabulary[3]GlossPancheimportant personageacaimaSpaniardxuaTequendama Fallspatibagrepanchelarge fish with big mouthpatalocruel assassincolimavery powerful manxe amimasnowtolima References ^ ^ del Castillo Mathieu, Nicolás (1972). "El vocabulario muzo-colima de la «Relación» de Juan Suárez de Cepeda (1582)". Thesaurus. 27 (3): 413-441. ISSN 0040-604X ^ Durbin, Marshall & Seijas, Haydée (January 1973). "A Note on Panche, Pijao, Pantagora (Palenque), Colima and Muzo". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (1): 47–51. doi:10.1086/465239. ISSN 0020-7071 Connections Graph view Linked from Cariban languagesClassification of the Indigenous languages of the AmericasVenadilloIndigenous peoples in ColombiaPijao languageLanguages of ColombiaList of placenames of Indigenous origin in the AmericasRace and ethnicity in ColombiaList of unclassified languages of South AmericaPanche peoplePanchePanchi (disambiguation) Links to Cariban languagesPanche peopleColombiaCundinamarca DepartmentTolima DepartmentUnclassified languageTequendama FallsBagre (fish)