Sáliba
| Nome preferencial: | Sáliba |
| Explicação: | most common name in the literature |
| Auto-denominação: | unknown |
| Nomes e grafias alternativos: | Sáliva (Suárez (1977), among others) |
| Filiação genética: | Sáliban |
| População: | 3035 in Colombia (according to the 2005 census) and 344 in Venezuela (according to the 2011 census) |
| Falantes: | unclear but Estrada Ramírez (2012:540) says that only 8% of the population use the language in their everyday interactions |
| Situação sociolingüística: |
In the Venezuelan communities of Provincial and Puerto Lucera, there are 1 or 2 fluent speakers and a few passive speakers (source: visits to the communities). In Colombia, the language is primarily spoken by people in the grandparent generation with people in the parent generation only having passive knowledge of it and children being largely Spanish monolinguals (Estrada Ramírez, 2012:540). |
| Localização: | Department of Casanare (In the Orocué municipality, the resguardos El Consejo, El Duya, El Médano, El Saladillo, El Suspiro, Paravare, and San Juanito and the Makucuana reserve; in the Hato Corozal municipality, community Morichito, which is part of the Caño Mochuelo resguardo); Department of Vichada (in the Puerto Carreño municipality in the communities of Yuripialito and the Santa Rosalía). There are also some Sáliba living in Venezuela in the communities Puerto Lucera, Provincial, Palomo, Pijiguao, and Caicara. |
| Fonte(s) de informação: | Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (Jun/2015) |
| Código ISO 639-3: | slc |
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(Esta página foi editada pela última vez em 02 Jul 2015 01:02.)