Kuna

E12670

American indigenous language Chibchan language indigenous language

Kuna is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna (Kuna) people primarily in Panama and parts of Colombia.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American indigenous language → Chibchan language → indigenous language →
alternativeName	Cuna language → Dulegaya → Guna language →
basicWordOrder	SOV →
closelyRelatedTo	Buglere language → Guaymí language →
continent	North America →
country	Colombia → Panama →
ethnicGroup	Guna people →
glottologCode	kuna1268 →
glottologName	San Blas Kuna →
hasDialects	Border Kuna → San Blas Kuna →
hasLoanwordsFrom	English language → Spanish language →
hasMorphologicalFeature	postpositions instead of prepositions → rich verbal morphology →
hasOrthography	standardized Latin-based orthography →
hasPhonologicalFeature	nasalization → tone-like pitch accent → vowel length contrast →
hasRegulatingBody	Guna General Congress (language commission) →
hasSociolinguisticFeature	intergenerational transmission in many communities → strong community language loyalty →
languageCodeISO639-2	cuk →
languageCodeISO639-3	cuk →
languageFamily	Chibchan →
linguisticTypology	agglutinative language →
region	Central America →
spokenBy	Guna people → Kuna people →
spokenIn	Colombia → Colombian Caribbean coast → Darién Province → Guna Yala → Madugandí → Panama → Wargandí →
status	vulnerable language →
usedFor	daily communication in Guna communities → ritual speech → traditional oral literature →
usedInEducation	bilingual education programs in Guna Yala →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Madugandí ("Kuna people") → Wargandí ("Kuna people") →	inhabitedBy
Guna language ("Kuna language") →	alternateName
San Blas Kuna ("Kuna language continuum") →	belongsTo
Isthmo-Colombian Area ("Kuna (Guna)") →	hasIndigenousGroup
Guna General Congress (language commission) ("Kuna language") →	languageRegulated
San Blas Kuna ("Kuna language") →	partOfLanguage
Panama →	regionalLanguage
Kuna language ("Kuna people") →	spokenBy