Back Idioma arhuaco AST Arhuac Catalan Idioma arhuaco Spanish Arhuaco French Lingua arhuaca Galician Arhuaco jezik Croatian Արուակո լեզու Armenian Asụsụ Arhuaco IG Ika NN Ika (språk) NB
| Arhuaco | |
|---|---|
| Ikʉ | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Ethnicity | 14,800 Arhuacos (2001)[1] |
Native speakers | 8,000 (2009)[2] |
Chibchan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | arh |
| Glottolog | arhu1242 |
| ELP | Ica |
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Arhuaco, commonly known as Ikʉ (Arhuaco: Ikʉ), is an Indigenous American language of the Chibchan language family, spoken in South America by the Arhuaco people.[3]
There are 8000 speakers, all in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia, 90% of whom are monolingual.[3] Literacy is 1 to 5% in their native language. Some speak Spanish, and 15 to 25% are literate in that auxiliary language.[3] The users have a very strong traditional culture and have vibrant use of their tongue.[3]
It is also known as: Aruaco, Bintuk, Bíntukua, Bintucua, Ica, Ijca, Ijka, Ika, and Ike.[3]
The language uses a subject–object–verb (SOV) sentence structure.[3]
- ^ Arhuaco language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Arhuaco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e f Arhuaco, by Arango and Sánchez, Ethnologue, 1998, access date 16 April 2008
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