• Old 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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    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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  • 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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  • speaks an older dialect of English, using thou instead of you. Costa Rican Sign Language is also spoken by the deaf community, and Costa Rican Spanish slang...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Paulo Wanchope (category Costa Rican people of Jamaican descent)
    wanˈtʃope]; born 31 July 1976), more commonly known as Paulo Wanchope, is a Costa Rican football coach and former professional footballer As a player he was...
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    Meteorological Institute, state internet service provider RACSA, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, CCSS), the...
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    Ktunaxa language, Ktunaxa Sign Language has historically been spoken in Ktunaxa ɁamakaɁis (Ktunaxa Country). Perhaps related to or descended from the old Plateau...
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    creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
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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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  • a large bloc in the Legislative Assembly) vigorously oppose it. The Costa Rican Penal Code in its article 121 establishes that no abortion performed...
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  • Elián Quesada-Thorn (category Costa Rican people of Irish descent)
    youth international matches for Costa Rica. Quesada-Thorn began playing football when he was two or three years old, where he played with his father...
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    Bryan Oviedo (category Costa Rican men's footballers)
    is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left midfielder for Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake and the Costa Rica national...
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    José María Figueres (category Costa Rican Roman Catholics)
    Figueres Olsen (born 24 December 1954) is a Costa Rican businessman and politician, who served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. He also ran for...
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  • Jewison Bennette (category Costa Rican men's footballers)
    Jewison Francisco Bennette Villegas (born 15 June 2004) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Greek Super League club...
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    40 Costa, Rodríguez-Vázquez et al., p. 41 Costa, Rodríguez-Vázquez et al., p. 45 coindatabase.com Puerto Rican coins 1895 -1896. Puerto Rico - Peso (1890-1898)...
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    Bribri people (category Indigenous peoples in Costa Rica)
    within service range of the Hone Creek Clinic alone, suggesting the total Costa Rican Bribri population is larger. They are also a voting majority in the Puerto...
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    Puerto Rico (redirect from Puerto-Rican)
    community are American Sign Language and its local variant, Puerto Rican Sign Language. The Spanish of Puerto Rico has evolved into having many idiosyncrasies...
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    Rónald Matarrita (category Costa Rican men's footballers)
    (born 9 July 1994) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Greek Super League club Aris FC and the Costa Rica national team....
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  • Sheika Scott (category Costa Rican women's footballers)
    youngest player to score in the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division, at just 14 years old. On 22 December 2022, Scott was signed by Alajuelense for a one-year...
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    in the planning stage by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (Costa Rican Institute of Electricity) is the El Diquís Hydroelectric Project, which...
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    Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (category Costa Rican people of Nicaraguan descent)
    co-defendants received varied sentences. Walter Reiche (an executive from Costa Rican firm Corporación Fischel) was sentenced to serve four years of prison...
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    Guadalupe Urbina (category 20th-century Costa Rican poets)
    Guadalupe Urbina (born 28 October 1959) is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter, poet, and activist. Urbina is a folk musician whose compositions reflect the...
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  • Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez (category Costa Rican people convicted of murder)
    Arroyo Gutiérrez (born 1976), known as The Southern Psychopath, is a Costa Rican serial killer and rapist who killed between 6 and 11 women in several...
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