The Timotean languages were spoken in the Venezuelan Andes around what is now Mérida. It is assumed that they are extinct. However, Timote may survive in the so-far unattested Mutú (Loco)

Mutu language

Mutu, or Tuam , is an Austronesian languages of New Britain. It is named for its two dialects....

 language, as this occupies a mountain village (Mutús) within the old Timote state.

There is no apparent connection to the Chibchan, Arawakan, or Cariban families, apart from sporadic resemblances with Paez

Páez language

Páez is a language isolate of Colombia spoken by Páez people in the central Andes region near Popayán...

 and some divergent Chibchan languages, so Timotean appears to be an independent family.

There were two closely related languages, each a pair of dialects:

• Timote–Cuica
  Timote language
  Timote, also known as Cuica or Timote–Cuica, was the language of the Timote–Cuica state in the Venezuelan Andes, around the present city of Mérida and south of Lake Maracaibo....
  
   (Miguri, Cuica, "Cicua", spoken by the Timoto–Cuica people)
• Mucuchí–Maripú
  Mucuchí language
  Mucuchí is a suspected Timotean language of Venezuela. Mirripú was a dialect. Most classifications place them as dialects of Timote, with Cuica being a separate language, but the data in Loukotka indicates that Timote and Cuica were one language, and Mucuchí–Marripú another.-References:*Adelaar,...
  
  (Mocochí, Mirripú)

Traditionally, Mucuchí and Mirripú have been classified as dialects of Timote, with Cuica as a distinct language, but the data in Loukotka (1968) (unless it's been mislabeled)http://multitree.org/codes/qcx indicates that Cuica is a dialect of Timote, and that Mucuchí–Mirripú are a separate language.

External links

• Fabre: Mutús