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Arhuaco language
Arhuaco is a Chibchan language family, Indigenous American language spoken in South America.
It has 14,301 speakers all in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia, 90% of whom are monolingual. Literacy is 1 to 5% in their native language, some speak Spanish and 15 to 25% are literate in that auxiliary language. The users have a very strong traditional culture and have vibrant use of their tongue.
It is also known as: Aruaco, Bintuk, Bintukua, Bintucua, Ica, Ijca, Ijka, Ika, and Ike.
The language uses the subject-object-verb structure.
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