Garífuna
[aka Garifuna, Garfuna, Black Carib]Classification: Arawakan
·at risk
Classification: Arawakan
·at risk
Garifuna, Garfuna, Black Carib, Caribe, Central American Carib, "Moreno" |
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Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Maritime |
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Information from: “Meso-America” (197-209) . William Adelaar and J. Diego Quesada (2007) , Christopher Moseley · London and New York: Routledge
English-based Caribbean Creole
"There is a high degree of bilingualism with English-based Caribbean Creole." (2007:200)
"Originally from the island of St. Vincent...Also spoken in Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. In Honduras it is spoken in the Departments of Cortés and Gracias a Dios." (2007:200)
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
98,000 in Honduras (1993).
98,000 in Honduras (Rivas 1993). Population total all countries: 195,800. 100 monolinguals (2013, unchanged).
Shifting to Spanish [spa] in some villages. All domains.
Spanish; English
100 monolinguals. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 2002.
Literacy rate in L1: 1%%-5%%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%%-15%%.
Mainly north coast between Masca, Cortés Department and Plaplaya; Gracias a Dios Department. 37 villages in Honduras, 46 elsewhere in Central America (plus cities La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, and Puerto Cortés). Also in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, United States (New York City; New Orleans).
Mainly north coast between Masca, Cortés Department, Plaplaya; Gracias a Dios Department. 37 villages in Honduras, 46 elsewhere in Central America (plus cities La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, and Puerto Cortés).
Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
Belize: 14,061 (2000)
Nicaragua: no number given (critically endangered)
Guatemala: 3,564 (2002)
Honduras: 98,000 "Estimate by Rivas which appears in Ethnologue; the number of speakers in that estimate is now inaccurate."
Critically endangered in Nicaragua.
Belize: Dangriga; Stann Creek; Toledo
Guatemala: Livingston; Puerto Barrios
Honduras: Masca, Cortés department; Plaplaya; Gracias a Dios
Nicaragua: Orinoco in the Regiones Atlánticas Autónomas del Sur
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Transnational Endangered Language Communities and the Garifuna Nation” (59-79) . Maya Ravindranath (2009)
<10%%
~10%%
Ethnic population in Belize: 14,061; Honduras: ~98,000.
About 10%% of children were speakers in 1986; 90%% did not speak it; Those children are now parents. Neither they nor their children speak the language. (2007:27)
In the district towns of Punta Gorda and Dangriga, Garifuna is rarely heard on the streets and only older people regularly use the language. (1986, so probably even less now). In the rural communities one is more likely to hear Garifuna than in the towns.
English; Belizean Creole (Bileez Kriol)
All in Hopkins are at least bilingual.
"Spoken by Garinagu in over fifty communities" in the countries listed.
Belize: Dangriga (Stann Creek district); Punta Gorda (Toledo district); Hopkins; Seine Bight; Georgetown; and Barranco.
Information from: “Preservation strategies of the Garifuna language in the context of global economy in the village of Corozal in Honduras” . Santiago Jaime Ruiz Alvarez (2008)
"Although parents have stopped passing on the heritage language to their children, by the ages of twelve to fifteen these children not only start to speak Garifuna as the primary language, but to also advocate with great pride for the use and preservation of the heritage language."
Corozal
Information from: “Idiomas mayas: Número de hablantes y extension territorial” . Liliana Pellicer (2005) Prensa Libre
203 speakers in Guatemala.
Covers a 20 square kilometer region in Guatemala.