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
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Ta-Arawakan
- Country
- Nicaragua
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- linguistic typology
- verb–subject–object
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 190000
- topic's main category
- Category:Garifuna language
- indigenous to
- Bay Islands Department
- native label
- Karif
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garifuna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.