Also Known As:
Brunca, Brunka, Brúncajc, Brúnkajk
Dialects & Varieties
Meso-America
Adelaar, William and J. Diego Quesada. 2007. "Meso-America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. 197-209. London and New York: Routledge.
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"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)
Location and Context
Countries
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Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Recent Resources
Este es un trabajo de la comunidad boruca que pretende salvar una cultura precolombina por medio de
Efforts made by the Boruca community, by Costa Rican government institutions as well as universities
A child speaking Boruca, a language spoken in the south part of Costa Rica.