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Name: Guaymí
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Ngäbere; Valiente; Chiriqui; Ngobere; Mobe; Move; Norteño; Mycenaean Linear B; Guaymi; Movere; Ngawbere; Gymimí; Penonomeño
Spoken in: Costa Rica, Panama
Number of speakers: 128,000 in Panama (1990 census). Population total all countries: 133,090 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 171171 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 133092 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: gym
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Chibchan
Parent Subgroup: Waimi (wami)
Child Dialects: Inland Bocas del Toro Guaymí (gym-ibt) Chiriquí Guaymí; Eastern Guaymí; Tolé; Chiriquí (gym-gua) Coastal Bocas del Toro Guaymí (gym-cbt)

Endangerment Status


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

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