Arhuaco language
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Arhuaco | ||
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Spoken in: | Colombia | |
Total speakers: | 14,301 (1998) | |
Language family: | American Chibchan Arhuac Arhuaco |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | arh | |
ISO 639-3: | arh | |
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Arhuaco is a Chibchan language family, Indigenous American language spoken in South America.[1]
It has 14,301 speakers all in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia, 90% of whom are monolingual.[1] Literacy is 1 to 5% in their native language, some speak Spanish and 15 to 25% are literate in that auxiliary language.[1] The users have a very strong traditional culture and have vibrant use of their tongue.[1]
It is also known as: Aruaco, Bintuk, Bíntukua, Bintucua, Ica, Ijca, Ijka, Ika, and Ike.[1]
The language uses the subject-object-verb structure.[1]