Cabécar language
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| Cabécar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Costa Rica |
| Region | Turrialba Region (Cartago Province) |
Native speakers | 8,800 (2000)[1] |
| 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. 80% of speakers are monolingual. The language is also known by its dialect names Chirripó and Estrella.[1]
Orthography
Cabécar uses a Latin alphabet with umlauts for (ë, ö), and tildes for (ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ).[2]
Phonology
Cabécar has twelve vowels, five of which are nasalized.[2]
Typology
Cabécar has a canonical word order of subject–object–verb.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cabécar reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Native-languages.org
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