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    The Boruca (also known as the Brunca or the Brunka) are the indigenous people living in Costa Rica. The tribe has about 2,660 members, most living on a...
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  • The Boruca language (in Boruca: Brúnkajk, also known as Bronka, Bronca, Brunca) is the native language of the Boruca people of Costa Rica. Boruca belongs...
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    to work and oftentimes escaped from them. About 2,660 people are in the Boruca tribe. They live in the Puntarenas area of Costa Rica on one of the first...
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  • Territorio Indígena Boruca is an indigenous territory in Costa Rica. Vaage, Kari (2011). Indigenous peoples in Costa Rica and El Diquis hydroelectric project:...
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    endangered in Costa Rica Buglere (Bokotá) – 18,000 speakers, endangered Borũca (Brunca) – 140 speakers, moribund Talamanca Huetar (Güetar) † Bribri (Talamanca)...
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  • Boruca is a district of the Buenos Aires canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. Boruca has an area of 125.02 km² and an elevation of 550 metres...
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    of the Térraba population to the southwestern region of Costa Rica, near Boruca and the Térraba River. The town, San Francisco de Térraba, was founded in...
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    for some small remnants, the most significant of which are the Bribri and Boruca tribes who still inhabit the mountains of the Cordillera de Talamanca, in...
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    to 1530. The word "diquís" means "great waters" or "great river" in the Boruca language. The Diquis formed part of the Greater Chiriqui culture that spanned...
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    a three-day annual festival, held December 31 through January 2 by the Boruca people, an indigenous people in Costa Rica. The male participants of the...
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    (Cordillera de Talamanca), Guaymí (southern Costa Rica, along the Panamá border), Boruca (southern Costa Rica) and Térraba (southern Costa Rica). Today, according...
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    Creole, in all four cases representing a velar [ŋ]. It is also used in the Boruca language, Nawdm language, Jersey Dutch, and Ocaina language. "N̈" and "n̈"...
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  • southeast of Puntarenas province. Until its recent extinction, Boruca was spoken in the Boruca and Curré reserves in the southeast of Puntarenas province...
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    native ethnicities; Bribris, Chorotegas, Malekus, Ngöbe, Huetars, Cabecars, Borucas and Terrabas. The Law also provides the territories of self-government...
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    last kings of Talamanca Bribri language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) "Boruca, Bribri, and Cabécar - Orientation." Countries and Their Cultures. (retrieved...
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    de Piano - Costa Rica Piano Festival This is a Boruca festival held on December 8. The indigenous Boruca peoples celebrate traditions with traditional...
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    Piabucina astrigata Regan, 1903 Piabucina aureoguttata Fowler, 1911 Piabucina boruca W. A. Bussing, 1967 Piabucina elongata Boulenger, 1887 Piabucina erythrinoides...
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    (Cordillera de Talamanca), Guaymí (southern Costa Rica, along the Panamá border), Boruca (southern Costarable portion of the Costa Rican population is made up of...
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    (Cordillera de Talamanca), Guaymí (southern Costa Rica, along the Panamá border), Boruca (southern Costa Rica) and Térraba (southern Costa Rica). Costa Ricans of...
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    Retrieved March 5, 2021. Santana, Scarlett. "Yannis Pappas". The Southern Boruca. Retrieved September 23, 2012. "Just for Laughs: Comedy is the best medicine...
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    Pacheco, Miguel Ángel; Rojas Chaves, Carmen (1999). Diccionario boruca – español, español – boruca (in Spanish). Universidad de Costa Rica. pp. 1–207. ISBN 9789977675480...
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  • Guanacaste, such as the Talamanca (canton)'s Danza de los Huelos and the Boruca people's Danza de los Diablitos. Guanacaste is the major center for Costa...
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  • by the Boruca natives. The settlement of peoples of Europeans descent began in 1870, when they began building a road from El Guarco to Boruca. Some settlements...
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    region of Costa Rica, is the largest river in that country. The indigenous Boruca language name is Diquís which means "great river". Its basin is 5,085 square...
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  • mainly by natives of the Bribris, Cabécares, Teribes, Changuinolas and Borucas ethnic groups and was never completely defeated by the Spanish conquerors...
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    "Piekło zamarzło! Gorole po stronie Hanysów po kiepskiej prowokacji Artura Boruca" (in Polish). 10 September 2022. "Ruch zagra w śląskich barwach!". www.ksruch...
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    Alajuela), Bribri (Southern Atlantic), Cabécar (Cordillera de Talamanca), Boruca (Southern Costa Rica) and Ngäbe (Southern Costa Rica long the Panamá border)...
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  • Country Language Ethnonym Speakers Source Costa Rica Boruca 5 women 30 to 35 nonfluent speakers (1986 SIL) (1991) El Salvador Pipil 20 196,576 (1987) (1987)...
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  • languages include Nubi, Irish, Orok, Welsh, Swedish Sign Language, and Boruca. There are 360 endangered languages catalogued in Australia, alone. The...
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    (Cordillera de Talamanca), Guaymí (southern Costa Rica, along the Panamá border), Boruca (southern Costa Rica) and Térraba (southern Costa Rica). Only 1% of the...
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