Kuna

E12670

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

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Kuna people 6
Kuna canonical 4
Kuna language 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Chibchan language
indigenous language
alternativeName Guna language
surface form: Cuna language

Dulegaya
Guna language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Buglere language
Guaymí
surface form: Guaymí language
continent North America
country Colombia
Panama
ethnicGroup Ngäbe people
surface form: Guna people
glottologCode kuna1268
glottologName San Blas Kuna
hasDialects Border Kuna
San Blas Kuna
hasLoanwordsFrom English
surface form: 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 Ngäbe people
surface form: Guna people

Kuna self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kuna people
spokenIn Colombia
Colombian Caribbean region
surface form: 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

Referenced by (15)

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

Panama regionalLanguage Kuna
Kuna spokenBy Kuna self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Kuna language
this entity surface form: Kuna people
Isthmo-Colombian Area hasIndigenousGroup Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna (Guna)
Wargandí inhabitedBy Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna people
Guna General Congress (language commission) languageRegulated Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna language
Guna language alternateName Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna language
San Blas Kuna partOfLanguage Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna language
San Blas Kuna belongsTo Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna language continuum
Madugandí inhabitedBy Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna people
Kunegunda hasDiminutive Kuna
Guna people alsoKnownAs Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna people
Guna alternativeName Kuna
Dulegaya spokenBy Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna people
Caribbean coast of Panama hasIndigenousPeople Kuna
this entity surface form: Kuna people