Cuiba language

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Cuiba
Native toColombia, Venezuela
RegionMeta Casanare and Capanapara rivers (Colombia) Apure Division (Venezuela)
Native speakers
2,900 (2007–2008)[1]
Guahiban
  • Cuiba
Language codes
ISO 639-3cui
Glottologcuib1242
ELPCuiva

Cuiba is a Guahiban language spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. There are 2,300 people who speak it in Colombia and 650 in Venezuela.[2] More than half of Cuiba speakers do not speak any other language. In Colombia the literacy rate among Cuiba speakers is 45%.

References[change | change source]

  1. Cuiba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2016. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cui, access date 23 February 2016