| Cabécar | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Costa Rica |
| Region | Turrialba Region (Cartago Province) |
| Native speakers | 8,840 (2000) |
| Language family | |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cjp |
The Cabécar language is an indigenous American language of the Chibchan language family which is spoken in Costa Rica. Specifically, it is spoken in the inland Turrialba Region of the Cartago Province.[1] According to Ethnologue there were only 8,840 Cabécar speakers in 2000 with 80% of these speakers being monolingual.[1] It is also known as Chirripó or Estrella.[2]
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Cabécar uses a Latin alphabet with umlauts for (ë, ö), and tildas for (ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ).[3]
Cabécar has twelve vowels, five of which are nasalized.[3]
Cabécar has a canonical word order of subject–object–verb.[1]