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    Language, also known New Costa Rican Sign Language or Modern Costa Rican Sign Language, is the national sign language of Costa Rica's Deaf community. It...
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  • Costa Rican Sign Language is a deaf-community sign language of San Jose, spoken by people born before about 1945. Along with American Sign Language,...
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  • of you. Costa Rican Sign Language is also spoken by the deaf community, and Costa Rican Spanish slang is known as "pachuco". Since 2015 Costa Rica is...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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  • The colón (plural: colones; sign: ₡; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish...
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  • other sign languages, such as Old Costa Rican Sign Language and American Sign Language (ASL), not to mention indigenous substrate sign languages of the...
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    Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for encomienda (forced labor), which meant most of the Costa Rican...
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  • Bribri Sign Language was a village sign language of an indigenous Bribri community in southern Costa Rica. It is unrelated to Costa Rican Sign Language. Bribri...
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  • Brunca Sign Language is a village sign language of an indigenous Brunca community in southern Costa Rica. It is unrelated to Costa Rican Sign Language. Brunca...
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    The Costa Rican Civil War took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948 (44 days). The conflict began after the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, dominated...
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    Costa Rican literature has roots in colonization and is marked by European influences. Because Costa Rica is a young country, its literary tradition is...
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    2.4% of the total population. Indigenous Costa Ricans strive to keep their cultural traditions and languages alive. In 1977, the government passed the...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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  • Gino Vivi (category Costa Rican men's footballers)
    20 December 2000) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays for MLS side LA Galaxy. Vivi was born in San José, Costa Rica. He is of Italian descent...
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  • Ariel Lassiter (category American people of Costa Rican descent)
    September 1994) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal and the Costa Rica national team...
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    Maribel Guardia (category Costa Rican beauty pageant winners)
    May 29, 1959) is a Costa Rican-Mexican actress, TV host, model, singer and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of Miss Costa Rica 1978 and a contestant...
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  • A. (abbreviated as FIFCO) is a Costa Rican food and beverages company headquartered in the province of Heredia, Costa Rica. It has a catalog of over 2000...
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    Joel Campbell (category Costa Rican people of Jamaican descent)
    born 26 June 1992) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga FPD club Alajuelense and the Costa Rica national team. Campbell...
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    José Figueres Ferrer (category Costa Rican people of Catalan descent)
    nationalized its banking sector, granted women and Afro-Costa Ricans the right to vote, and offered Costa Rican nationality to people of African descent. His son...
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    Walter Ferguson (singer-songwriter) (category Costa Rican male singers)
    Ferguson Byfield (7 May 1919 – 25 February 2023) was a Panamanian-born Costa Rican calypso singer-songwriter. He was popularly known as Mr. Gavitt or Segundo...
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    Catarina, Masaya, Nicaragua. After making 52 appearances in five years at Costa Rican club Deportivo Saprissa, Duarte joined Club Brugge in the Belgian Pro...
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    and Costa Rican President, Laura Chinchilla. On 27 September 2012, San José disclosed plans to install its first street signs, about 22,000 signs and...
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    recipient: $107.1 million (1995) Currency: 1 Costa Rican colon (₡) = 100 centimos Exchange rates: Costa Rican colones (₡) per US$1 – 526.46 (March 27, 2015)...
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    Spanish Costa Rican are people from Costa Rica with Spanish ancestry from both the conquerors of the colonial period as immigrants who arrived after independence...
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  • Thumbnail for Luis Díaz (Costa Rican footballer)
    (born 6 December 1998) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Deportivo Saprissa and the Costa Rica national team. Díaz started...
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    Manfred Ugalde (category Costa Rican men's footballers)
    May 2002) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow and the Costa Rica national team...
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    Álvaro Saborío (category Costa Rican men's footballers)
    1982) is a Costa Rican professional footballer, who plays as a forward and captains Costa Rican club San Carlos from the Primera División de Costa Rica. Saborío...
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    Christiana Figueres (category Costa Rican women diplomats)
    Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations...
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    Valverde (born 9 April 1982), known simply as Carlos Hernández, is a former Costa Rican football player who last played as an attacking midfielder. Hernández...
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  • A.D. Guanacasteca (category Football clubs in Costa Rica)
    Deportiva Guanacasteca is a Costa Rican football team based in Nicoya, Guanacaste. They currently play in the Costa Rican First Division. Their home stadium...
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