Cabécar language
| Cabécar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Costa Rica |
| Region | Turrialba Region (Cartago Province) |
| Ethnicity | 9,300 (2000)[1] |
Native speakers |
8,800 (2000)[1] 80% monolingual (no date)[2] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
cjp |
| Glottolog |
cabe1245[3] |
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;[2] as of 2007, it is the only indigenous language in Costa Rica with monolingual adults.[1] 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).[4]
Phonology
Cabécar has twelve vowels, five of which are nasalized.[4]
Typology
Cabécar has a canonical word order of subject–object–verb.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cabécar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Cabécar language at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cabecar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 1 2 Native-languages.org
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