Boruca
Boruka; Borunca; Borunka; Brunca; Burunca; Brunka; Burnca;
Chibchan; Isthmic
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Vocabulario boruca
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"The language experienced a revival in the 1970s when efforts for cultural preservation began."
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The last fluent speakers passed away in 2004.
2012
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1,000
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"3 (Adelaar 2007). 30–35 nonfluent speakers. Ethnic population: 1,000 (1991)."
2015
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"Puntarenas province: south coast between Playa Bonita and Golfito."
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"Puntarenas province: south coast between Playa Bonita and Golfito."
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"Language attitude was apparently the ultimate reason for decay, as younger generations utterly despised the language. The Boruca sense of identity is in their craftsmanship, not the language." (Adelaar 2007:198)
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2005
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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."
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Boruca: behind the maskhttp://www.boruca.org/en/language/
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th EditionLewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.http://www.ethnologue.com
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