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ISO 639-3 · cabcab
Ta-Arawakan family
Garifuna
Karif
Garifuna is a language of the Ta-Arawakan branch, spoken in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Wikidata counts about 190,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “member of the Arawakan language family, spoken in Central America, especially in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua, also within the USA”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
cab- Glottocode
gari1256- Family
- Ta-Arawakan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Wikipedia
- 32 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
4countries
—scripts
1levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Garifuna · Karif |
|---|---|
| Also called | Garifuna language, Garífuna |
| All speakers | 190,000 |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Ta-Arawakan to Garifuna
The branches above Garifuna, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
5Ta-ArawakanfamilycabGarifunalanguage
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Honduras
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