Alternate Names: Black Carib, Caribe, Central American Carib, Garífuna
Dialects: Eastern Garifuna, Western Garifuna. Eastern Garifuna dialect is in Honduras and Nicaragua (leaves out, r, and tends to shorten words), Western Garifuna in Guatemala and Belize. Related to Island Carib ,, with Spanish ,, English ,, and French , borrowings.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 98,000 in Honduras (Rivas 1993). Population total all countries: 195,800. 100 monolinguals.
Language Use: Shifting to Spanish [spa] in some villages. All domains. Mostly positive attitudes. Also use English [eng], Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 2002.
Typology: VSO.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Honduras
Other Comments: Christian, traditional religion.