Panche

Panche was the language of the Panche, a warrior people who held the lower slopes of the eastern Magdalena valley in Colombia. They lived in a loose confederation and often fought the highland Muisca to their east; their culture can be traced in the region from about 300, with migrations from the Caribbean coast around 1000.

Their language is almost unattested and remains unclassified, though some propose a Cariban connection. The seventeenth-century friar Pedro Simón recorded that panche meant cruel or murderer in their speech. Spanish forces overran the territory after the founding of the New Kingdom of Granada, and the Panche population collapsed under conquest and disease, taking its language with it.