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Facts about Mískito
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
miq - Other names for "Mískito":
Marquito, Mosquito, Mískitu, Mísquito, Miskuto - The Mískito language is spoken in:
Nicaragua, Honduras & Belize - Spoken by : About 200,000 people.
Miskito is an indigenous language of Central America, spoken by nearly 200,000 people in Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize. Miskito, also known as Bahwika, Wangki, or Tawira. Another 100,000 people speak a second language called Miskito Coastal Creole, which is a mixture of Miskito, English, Spanish, and African languages that arose after colonization. The Miskito language is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Nicaragua, this is because the Miskito people also hold the highest population of Indigenous people in the country.
Miskito Useful Links
- Rights: Miskito: Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Miskito language.
- Prayers: Miskito translation of the Lord's Prayer.
- Miskito: Dictionary and grammatical overview of Miskito. Page in Spanish.
- [1]: Information about Miskitu language usage.
- Language: Demographic information about Miskito from the Ethnologue of Languages.
- Mosquitia: Article on bilingual education among the Miskito Indians.
- Miskito Dictionary: Free downloadable wordlist of the Miskito language.
- Language Tree: Theories about Miskito's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.
- Language Structures: Miskito linguistic profile and academic bibliography.
- Languages Project: Miskito: Bibliography of Miskito language resources.
- Language: Encyclopedia articles on Miskito.
- Miskito / Miskito: Information about the Miskito language in Spanish.
- Tribe: Miskito Indian books.