ICA: a language of Colombia

The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.

SIL code: ARH

ISO 639-2: sai

Population 14,301 (1998 Arango and Sánchez). 
Region Southern slopes of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Alternate names   ARUACO, ARHUACO, BINTUK, BíNTUKUA, BINTUCUA, IJCA, IJKA, IKA, IKE
Classification Chibchan, Aruak.
Comments 90% are monolingual. A few use Spanish as second language. The people use the name 'Ica'. Strong traditional culture. Grammar. SOV. Literacy rate in first language: 1% to 5%. Literacy rate in second language: 15% to 25%.

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