Teribe (language)
| Teribe | ||
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Spoken in |
Panama | |
| speaker | 3000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | nowhere official language | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
cai (Central American Indian languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
tfr |
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Teribe or Naso (own name) is a Chibcha language spoken in Panama and to a very limited extent also in Costa Rica , within which it belongs to the group of Talamanca languages . Alternatively, Teribe can be divided into the Isthmic Subgroup of the southern Chibcha.
Teribe is spoken by members of the indigenous Central American tribe of the Teribe or Naso . The majority of the current 3,000 speakers also use Spanish . The language is of the OVS language type.
Other names for this language are Terraba, Tiribi, Tirribi, Norteño and Quequexque.
Web links
- Teribe at ethnologue.com (English)