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Name: Cabécar
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Kabékar; Cabecar; Tucurrique; Chiripo; Cabécara; Chirripó; Estrella
Spoken in: Costa Rica
Number of speakers: 8,840 (2000). 7,072 monolinguals (80%). Ethnic population: 9,308 (2000) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 8840 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: cjp
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Chibchan
Parent Subgroup: Kabékar-Bribri (kbbr)
Child Dialects: Northern Cabécar; Estrella (cjp-est) Northern Cabécar; Chirripó (cjp-chi) Southern Cabécar; Ujarrás (cjp-uja)

Endangerment Status


Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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