Kuna
Cuna; San Blas Cuna; Cueva; Paya-Pocuro; Caimán;
Chibchan; Isthmic
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2009
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Panama, Colombia
9.4,-78.316667
mostly Panama-Colombian border area
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Ethnologue distinguishes 2 Kuna languages, which others do not. They are: Kuna, Border [kvn] 1,200 (500 in Panama) (1990). Kuna, San Blas [cuk] 57,100 (2000)
2009
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Panama; Colombia;
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In Colombia, Border Cuna: North coast region near Panama isthmus; also in Panama. In Panama, San Blas Cuna: San Blas Islands and on the mainland.
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In Colombia, Border Cuna: North coast region near Panama isthmus; also in Panama. In Panama, San Blas Cuna: San Blas Islands and on the mainland.
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Ethnologue distinguishes 2 Cuna languages: Kuna, San Blas [cuk] 57,100, ethnic population 80,500. Kuna, Border [kvn] 3500 (2600 in Colombia, 900 in Panama)
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Colombia, Panama
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Panama
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"San Blas Islands and on the mainland. Some 10,000 have moved to Panama City, port of Colón...The language is also spoken by some 1,000 speakers around the Gulf of Urabá in Colombia" (Adelaar & Quesada 2007:199-200).
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"San Blas Islands and on the mainland. Some 10,000 have moved to Panama City, port of Colón...The language is also spoken by some 1,000 speakers around the Gulf of Urabá in Colombia" (Adelaar & Quesada 2007:199-200).
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~1,170
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1,170 Cuna in Colombia, more in Panama.
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Colombia; Panama
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Colombia, along the east and west banks of the Gulf of Urubá, Darién region, Department of Antioquia: Caiman Nuevo, Neoclí; Department of Chocó: Arquía.
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Colombia, along the east and west banks of the Gulf of Urubá, Darién region, Department of Antioquia: Caiman Nuevo, Neoclí; Department of Chocó: Arquía.
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The Cuna have maintained their language, social organization, and religious beliefs but they have been decimated by tuberculosis, malaria, and parasites.
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- "Documentation and description of Kuna: a community-based approach to documentation and grammar-writing" HRELP AbstractSmith, Wikaliler. 2009. ""Documentation and Description of Kuna: a Community-based Approach To Documentation and Grammar-writing" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=225.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=225
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