Endangered Languages Project - Cabécar

Cabécar

^{[aka Kabékar, Cabecar, Tucurrique]}

Classification: Chibchan

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kabékar, Cabecar, Tucurrique, Chiripo, Chirripó, Estrella
CLASSIFICATION		Chibchan, Isthmic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cjp
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Chirripó Telire Estrella Ujarrás
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Chibchan Languages” (391-439) . Constenla Umaña, Adolfo (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Verónica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,441
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
More younger than older speakers,and the population of speakers has tended to remain constant. However, the probabilities of this state being maintained are not high, because of their small number of speakers and the fact that isolation will not continue indefinitely.

DATE OF INFO: 2000

PLACES: Costa Rica

8,840
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
9,308
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
8,840 (2000). 7,070 monolinguals. The only language in Costa Rica with monolingual speakers, mostly women (Adelaar 2007). Ethnic population: 9,310 (2000) (2013, no change).

DATE OF INFO: 2000

PLACES: Costa Rica;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Turrialba region.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,840
Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Cabécar is the only language of Costa Rica that has monolingual speakers, basically women" (Adelaar & Quesada 2007:198).

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

9.75,-83.4166666667

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press