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Awa-Cuaiquer language
Awa-Cuaiquer is a Barbacoan language spoken in northwestern South America.
It has 21,000 speakers nearly all in the Colombian pacific slopes, with 1,000 speakers in an adjacent area of Ecuador. Most males also speak Spanish; however, children and females are predominantly monolingual.
Literacy is less than 1% in their native language, and under 5% are literate in the auxiliary Spanish language.
The language uses the subject-object-verb structure and uses the Latin alphabet.
In Colombia variations of the name include: Coaiquer, Quaiquer, Kwaiker, Awa, Awa Pit, and Cuaiquer; in Ecuador its is also known as Awa, Awapit, and Cuaiquer.
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