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Name: Guatuso
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Maléku Jaíka; Watuso-Wétar; Guetar; Malecu; Watuso
Once Spoken in: Costa Rica
Number of speakers: 750 (2000). Ethnic population: 1,074 (2000) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 300 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 750 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: gut
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Chibchan
Parent Subgroup: Chibchan; Chibchan Phylum; Chibcha (chib)
Child Dialects: Huetar; Guetar (gut-hue) El Sol Guatuso (gut-sol) Margarita Guatuso (gut-mar) Tonjibe Guatuso (gut-ton)

Endangerment Status


Linguist List Status: Extinct
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable

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