Country
Languages of Costa Rica
The Linguasphere Register records 10 entries for Costa Rica, spread across 5 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.
10Register entries
5Sectors present
6Zones
1Language entries
4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 6= NORTH-AMERICA 7= SINO-INDIAN 8= SOUTH-AMERICA
Register entries recorded in Costa Rica
| Code | Entry | Level | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
40= | EUSKARIC | Zone | Covers "Basque" or "Euskarian" isolated set. |
51-AAA-bb | español-F | Inner | español académico, lingua castellana, "formal castillian spanish", "literary castillian", "standard castillian". |
51= | ROMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
52-A | NORSK + FRYSK | Set | GERMANIC,. |
52-AC | FRYSK + DEUTSCH | Chain | CONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. … |
52-ACB | DEUTSCH + NEDERLANDS | Net | GERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below … |
52= | GERMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
69= | MESO-AMERICA | Zone | Covers the "Meso-America" reference area. |
79= | SINITIC | Zone | Covers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity. |
81= | CHIBCHANIC | Zone |
Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.