Chibchan languages
The Chibchan languages (also Chibchan, Chibchano) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian Area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The name is derived from the name of an extinct language called Chibcha or Muysccubun, once spoken by the people who lived on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of which the city of Bogotá was the southern capital at the time of the Spanish Conquista. However, genetic and linguistic data now indicate that the original heart of Chibchan languages and Chibchan-speaking peoples may not have been in Colombia at all, but in the area of the Costa Rica-Panama border, where one finds the greatest variety of Chibchan languages.

External relations
A larger family called Macro-Chibchan, which would contain the Misumalpan languages, Xinca, and Lenca, was found convincing by Kaufman (1990).

Classification
 A
 Waimí (Guaymi)
 Guaymí (Ngäbere, Movere) – 170,000 speakers, vulnerable in Panama, endangered in Costa Rica
 Buglere (Bogotá) – 18,000 speakers, endangered
 Borũca (Brunca) – 140 speakers, moribund
 Talamanca
 Huetar (Güetar) †
 Bribri (Talamanca), 7,000 speakers – vulnerable in Costa Rica, endangered in Panama
 Cabécar (Talamanca) – 8,800 speakers, vulnerable
 Teribe (Norteño) – 3,300 speakers, endangered
 B
 Pech (Paya) – 990 speakers, endangered
 Dorasque †
 Votic
 Rama – 740 speakers, moribund
 Voto †
 Maléku (Guatuso) – 750 speakers, endangered
 Corobicí – northwestern Costa Rica †
 Cuna–Colombian
 Kuna (Dulegaya) – 60,600 speakers, vulnerable in Panama, endangered in Colombia
 Chibcha–Motilon
 Barí (Motilón) – 5,000 speakers, vulnerable
 Chibcha–Tunebo
 Chibcha †
 Duit (Muisca) †
 U'wa (Tunebo) – 2,550 speakers, endangered
 Guane † – Colombia
 Arwako–Chimila
 Chimila – 350 speakers, endangered
 Arwako
 Wiwa (Malayo, Guamaca) – 1,850 speakers, endangered
 Kankuamo †
 Arhuaco (Ika) – 8,000 speakers, vulnerable
 Kogi (Cogui) – 9,910 speakers, vulnerable

The extinct languages of Antioquia, Old Catío and Nutabe have been shown to be Chibchan (Adelaar & Muysken, 2004:49). The language of the Tairona is unattested, apart from a single word, but may well be one of the Arwako languages still spoken in the Santa Marta range. The Zenú  Sinú language of northern Colombia is also sometimes included, as are the Malibu languages, though without any factual basis.

Constenla argues that Cueva, the extinct dominant language of Pre-Columbian Panama long assumed to be Chibchan based on a misinterpreted Kuna vocabulary, was actually Chocoan, but there is little evidence.

The Cofán language (Kofán, Kofane, A'i) of Ecuador and Colombia has been erroneously included in Chibchan due to borrowed vocabulary.