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Name:
Garífuna
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Garifuna; Garfuna; Black Carib; Caribe; Central American Carib; "Moreno"
Spoken in:
Belize, USA, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras
Number of speakers:
98,000 in Honduras (Rivas 1993). 100 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 195,800
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
115625
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
191974
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
cab
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Maipurean (Maipuran, Arawakan)
Parent Subgroup:
Iñeri; Igneri; Island Carib; Inyeri (inri)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Garífuna
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