Maléku language

Guatuso
Maléku Jaíka
Native to Costa Rica
Ethnicity 1,070 Maleku people (200?)[1]
Native speakers
 750  (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gut
Glottolog male1297[2]

The Maléku Jaíka language, also called Guatuso, is an indigenous language of north central Costa Rica. It is a Chibchan language spoken by around 750 indigenous Maléku people.

Sample Vocabulary

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guatuso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maleku Jaika". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.