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cabGarifuna  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Garifuna is an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize by the Garifuna people. The language is also spoken to a lesser extent in Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. Historically it was referred to as Carib or Black Carib and Igñeri by Europeans. Garifuna has a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms used only by women. This does not however affect the entire vocabulary but when it does, the terms used by men generally come from Carib and those used by women come from Arawak. It was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2009 along with Garifuna music and dance.

Entry terms

  • Garifuna language

ISO 639-3 code

  • cab

Notation

  • cab

In other languages

  • Garifuna

    German

  • Lingua garifuna

    Italian

  • Língua garífuna

    Portuguese

  • Idioma garífuna

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cab

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