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Arhuaco, commonly known as Ika, is an Indigenous American language of the Chibchan language family, spoken in South America.
It has 14,800 speakers, all in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia, 90% of whom are monolingual. Literacy
is 1 to 5% in their native language. Some speak Spanish, and 15 to 25% are literate in that auxiliary language. The users
have a very strong traditional culture and have vibrant use of their tongue. It is also known as: Aruaco, Bintuk, Bíntukua,
Bintucua, Ica, Ijca, Ijka, Ika, and Ike. The language uses a subject–object–verb (SOV) sentence structure. |
Names (more)[en] Arhuaco language[hr] Arhuaco jezik [no] Ika [qu] Arwaku simi [ru] Аруако [es] Idioma arhuaco |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Arhuaco. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : arhLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/arhhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:arh More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: arhFreebase ISO 639-3 : arh GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |