Ngäbere

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Ngäbere is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken primarily by the Ngäbe people in Panama and parts of Costa Rica.


Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chibchan language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Guaymí
Ngäbe
Ngäbere language
countryStatusInPanama indigenous language
endangermentFactors Spanish language dominance
migration to urban areas
ethnicGroup Guaymí
surface form: Guaymí people

Ngäbe people
hasAlternativeTransliteration Ngäbe
surface form: Ngawbe

Ngobe
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDomainUsage community gatherings
home
local markets
hasGlottocode ngab1239
hasLinguisticRelation Buglere language
hasLinguisticRelationType closely related
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (in some analyses)
nasal vowels
simple consonant inventory
hasRevitalizationEfforts bilingual education programs
community language projects
hasSociolinguisticFeature intergenerational transmission decreasing in some areas
strong association with Ngäbe cultural identity
hasTypologicalFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
ISO639-3 gym
languageFamily Chibchan languages
languageStatus vulnerable
primaryRegion Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca
western Panama
regionType rural areas
spokenIn Costa Rica
Panama
subfamily Guaymí
surface form: Guaymiic
usedAlongside Spanish
usedFor daily communication among Ngäbe people
oral tradition
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ngobe alternativeName Ngäbere
Ngobe endonym Ngäbere
Ngäbe language Ngäbere
Ngäbere language nativeName Ngäbere
Panama regionalLanguage Ngäbere