Garifuna
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member of the Arawakan language family, spoken in Central America, especially in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua, also within the USA
Key facts
- Native to
- North Coast of Honduras and Guatemala , Belize , Nicaragua 's Mosquito Coast
- Region
- Historically the Northern Caribbean coast of Central America from Belize to Nicaragua
- Ethnicity
- Garifuna
- Native speakers
- (120,000 cited 2001–2019)
- Language family
- Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Igñeri Garifuna
- Early forms
- Proto-Arawakan Igñeri Kalinago
- Recognised minority language in
- Belize , Guatemala
- Iso 639 3
- cab
- Glottolog
- gari1256
- Elp
- Garífuna
- Linguasphere
- 82-ABA-ba
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 190000
- native label
- Karif
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Recording of a Garifuna speaker Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America.
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Arawakan
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Kalinago
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Kalinago
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Cariban
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Q’eqchi’
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Ch’orti’
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Awakatek
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United States
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Wikipedia
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Honduras
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Guatemala
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Belize
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Nicaragua
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Dominica
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Categories
Arawakan languagesGarifunaIndigenous languages of Central AmericaLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 25Language articles with old speaker dataLanguages of BelizeLanguages of GuatemalaLanguages of HondurasLanguages of NicaraguaLanguages of the African diasporaMasterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of HumanityVerb–object–subject languages