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Name: Cuna
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Kuna, Border; Colombia Cuna; Caiman Nuevo; Paya-Pucuro; Kuna; Cueva; Paya-Pocuro; Caimán; Cueva-Cuna; Tule; Kuna (Border)
Spoken in: Colombia, Panama
Number of speakers: 500 in Colombia (1990). Population total all countries: 1,200 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 62579 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 1576 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: kvn
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Chibchan
Parent Subgroup: Cundimamarca; Cundinamarcan Subfamily (cndm)
Child Dialects: San Blas Cuna (cuk-san) Border Cuna (cuk-bor)

Endangerment Status


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

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