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, Watuso-Wétar, and Guetar, is an indigenous language of north central Costa Rica. It is a Chibchan language and Votic language spoken by around 300 to 750 indigenous Maléku people. This language is considered to be endangered according to The Endangered Languages Project. Corobicí is possibly a dialect.

Sample Vocabulary

Numbers[3]

Common Nouns[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Guatuso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Maléku Jaíka". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Native Languages of the Americas

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