Garifuna language
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| Garifuna | ||
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| Spoken in: | Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua | |
| Region: | Northern Caribbean coast of Central America from Belize to Nicaragua | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 100,000 | |
| Language family: | Arawakan Maipuran Northern Maipuran Caribbean Garifuna |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cai | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | cab | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Garifuna is a Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Belize by the Garifuna people. Spoken by a majority of Afro-Hondurans.
A French-based creole language spoken in Livingston, Guatemala is also called "Garifuna".
One interesting feature of Garifuna is a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms used only by women. This does not however affect the entire vocabulary but when it does, the terms used by men generally come from Carib and those used by women come from Arawak.
Some common Garifuna phrases:
Idabinya - How are you?
Ugodiati - I'm fine.
Buitibunafi - Good morning
Buitirabonweyu - Good afternoon
Gundatina Nasubu Dirunibu - Pleased to meet you.
Buitibu - You're beautiful
Tankéy - Thank you
Lyo - Goodbye
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