Ethnicity Cabécar people 9,300 (2000) Native speakers 8,800 (2000)80% monolingual (no date) Language family ChibchanCore-ChibchanIsthmicWestern IsthmicViceiticCabécar | ||
The Cabécar language is an indigenous American language of the Chibchan language family which is spoken by the Cabécar people in Costa Rica. Specifically, it is spoken in the inland Turrialba Region of the Cartago Province. 80% of speakers are monolingual; as of 2007, it is the only indigenous language in Costa Rica with monolingual adults. The language is also known by its dialect names Chirripó, Estrella, Telire, and Ujarrás.
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Orthography
Cabécar uses a Latin alphabet with umlauts for (ë, ö), and tildes for (ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ).
Phonology
Cabécar has twelve vowels, five of which are nasalized.
Typology
Cabécar has a canonical word order of subject–object–verb.
References
Cabécar language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA