The overwhelming majority of Colombians speak Spanish (see also Colombian Spanish), but in total 101 languages are listed for Colombia in the Ethnologue database. The specific number of spoken languages varies slightly since some authors consider as different languages what others consider are varieties or dialects of the same language, the best estimates recorded that 70 languages are spoken in the country today. Most of these belong to the Chibchan, Tucanoan, Bora–Witoto, Guajiboan, Arawakan, Cariban, Barbacoan, Saliban, language families. There are currently about 850,000 speakers of native languages.[4][5]
Sixty-five indigenous languages that exist today can be regrouped in 12 language families and 10 languages isolated, not classified so far. [1]