lang_description: ""The consensus among Teribe speakers is that the name “Teribe” originated when the Spanish explorers came up what is now known as the Teribe River and asked what this place was. The Teribes answered, tjer di, which means, ‘river of the Grandmother’. (The Grandmother was the protective spirit who controlled that area and to whom the Teribes went for help and healing.) The Spaniards corrupted that into Teribe and the name stuck (to the river and the people). The Teribes refer to themselves and their language as Naso which has come to mean ‘Indian, native’ but which probably derives from the two words na ‘here’ and so, sogo ‘owner’ to mean ‘the owners of this place’" (Oakes 2001:3)",
classification: "Chibchan; Isthmic",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: ""The language known as Térraba or Brorán in Costa Rica is an almost-extinct dialect of Teribe with five elderly living speakers as of 1991 (Grimes 1996:60). According to Teribes who have conversed with these Térraba speakers, the two dialects are easily mutually intelligible." (Oakes 2001:3)",
private_comment: null,
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "3,005",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "3,035-3,335?",
date_of_info: "1996 Panama, 1991 Costa Rica",
public_comment: "3,000 in Panama (1996); 5 in Costa Rica (1991). Ethnic population: 35 to 300 in Costa Rica.
3,300 in Panama (Adelaar 2007) (2013).",
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speaker_number_text: "3,362",
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id:9575,
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speaker_number_text: "3,005",
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id:11275,
code_id:5092,
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second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1996",
public_comment: "",
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id:14105,
code_id:5092,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
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children: null,
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id:25414,
code_id:5092,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~3,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
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older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1998",
public_comment: "[3,000 is] "Their own estimation as of 1998, which is perhaps a bit high. In the early part of the 20th century their
numbers were as low as 500, climbing to around 1,000 by 1972 (Grimes 1992). But as late as 1964
(Reverte 1967:2) they were still considered to be on the way to extinction. That is no longer the case."",