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    The Misumalpan languages (also Misumalpa or Misuluan) are a small family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples on the east coast of Nicaragua and...
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  • between the Chibchan languages and the Misulencan languages)...The respective subancestors of the Lencan and the Misumalpan languages would have separated...
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    Miskito (Miskitu in the Miskito language) is a Misumalpan language spoken by the Miskito people in northeastern Nicaragua, especially in the North Caribbean...
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  • collective name for a group of Misumalpan languages spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras. Hale & Salamanca (2001) classify the Sumu languages into a northern Mayangna...
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  • language, occupying part of the territory of Honduras and Nicaragua. It is an extinct language of the Misumalpan languages that was the main language...
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    of the languages of the Lencan, Misumalpan, and Chibchan families into a single large phylum (macrofamily). The Lencan and Misumalpan languages were once...
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    variety of Chibchan languages has been identified. A larger family called Macro-Chibchan, which would contain the Misumalpan languages, Xinca, and Lenca...
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    language, Sumo language, and Rama language. Other Indigenous languages spoken include Garifuna. Miskito Miskito is a Misumalpan language spoken by the...
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  • creole spoken in Nicaragua Miskito Languages, alternate name for Misumalpan languages Miskito Coast, alternate name for Mosquito Coast Miskito Cays, group...
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    more distantly to Sumo, but was geographically separated from other Misumalpan languages. The last semi-speakers of Cacaopera lived in the 1970s. All native...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    The evidence provided by an analysis of the Misumalpan language family, to which the Mayangna languages belong and which also includes Miskito and the...
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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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    Salvadorans (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    people spoke the Cacaopera language, a Misumalpan language. Cacaopera is an extinct language belonging to the Misumalpan family, formerly spoken in the...
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  • Matagalpa is an extinct Misumalpan language formerly spoken in the central highlands of Nicaragua. The language became extinct in the 19th century, and...
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    This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant...
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    The languages of South America can be divided into three broad groups: the languages of the (in most cases, former) colonial powers; many indigenous languages...
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    include Misumalpan languages, Choco languages, Barbacoan languages, Lencan languages (also considered Mesoamerican), and certain Cariban languages. Costa...
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    Culture of El Salvador (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    influences of Native American languages of El Salvador such as Lencan languages, Cacaopera language, Mayan languages and Pipil language, which are still spoken...
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    Demographics of Nicaragua (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Nicaragua were mainly inhabited by speakers of Misumalpan languages and some speakers of Chibchan languages. These groups include the Miskitos (120,817 people)...
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    Cacaopera people (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Matagalpa people spoke the Cacaopera and Matagalpa language, both of which are Misumalpan languages and are now extinct. "Nicaragua - IWGIA - International...
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    for most language families. Recently, the phylogenetic relationship between Chibchan languages, Lencan languages, and Misumalpan languages has been demonstrated...
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    Nicaragua (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    fourth language, is the most commonly spoken indigenous language. The indigenous Misumalpan languages of Mayangna and Ulwa are spoken by the respective peoples...
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  • Miskito language, the language of the Miskito people of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, is a member of the Misumalpan language family and...
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  • history of the sprachraum. Extinct language Language death Lists of endangered languages Lists of extinct languages Last surviving native speaker; it is...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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    Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...
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    antiquity. A similar scenario is proposed for those groups speaking Misumalpan languages, such as the Miskito and Mayangna peoples. The Pech, Miskito and...
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    von Humboldt noticed that the languages of the Americas seemed to be very different from the better-known European languages, yet seemingly also quite similar...
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  • Dené–Yeniseian languages are a recent proposal which has been generally well received, whereas reconstructions of the Proto-World language are often viewed...
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