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Garifuna is a Cariban language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Belize by the Garifuna people. Spoken by a majority of Afro-Hondurans.

A French-based creole language spoken in Livingston, Guatemala is also called "Garifuna".

One interesting feature of Garifuna is a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms used only by women. This does not however affect the entire vocabulary but when it does, the terms used by men generally come from Carib and those used by women come from Arawak.

Languages of Honduras | Languages of Belize | Languages of Guatemala | Languages of Nicaragua | Indigenous languages of Mesoamerica

 

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