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Kuna, Border

A language of Colombia

ISO 639-3: kvn

Population	500 in Colombia (1990). Population total all countries: 1,200.
Region	North coast region near Panama isthmus. Also in Panama.
Language map	Northern Colombia
Alternate names	Caiman Nuevo, Colombia Cuna, Cuna, Paya-Pucuro
Dialects	Classification of Kuna uncertain; may be an isolate with some Chibchan features.
Classification	Chibchan, Kuna
Language development	NT: 1993.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV.

Also spoken in:

Panama

Language name	Kuna, Border
Population	700 in Panama (1991 SIL).
Region	Southeastern Panama, villages of Paya and Pucuro.
Language map	Panama
Alternate names	Caiman Nuevo, Colombia Cuna, Cuna, Kuna de la Frontera, Long Hair Cuna, Paya-Pucuro Kuna
Comments	Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Forster, Keith. 1977. "The narrative folklore discourse in border Cuna."  

Forster, Keith. 1978. "La clasificación y estructura de un discurso ilustrado por discursos narrativos folklóricos en la lengua kuna de Paya."

Longacre, Robert E. and Frances M. Woods, editors. 1977. Discourse grammar: Studies in indigenous languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, 2.  

Pike, Eunice V., Keith Forster, and Wilma J. Forster. 1986. "Fortis versus lenis consonants in the Paya dialect of Kuna."

Vernacular Publications

Igal agbene angin gujad. 1980.