Mangue
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A language of Nicaragua
Alternate Names
Chorotega, Monimbo
User Population
No known L1 speakers. The last fluent speaker either died or shifted to Spanish by the early 1870s; some rememberers survived into the late 1880s (Brinton 1886). Ethnic population: 46,000 (2005 census).
Location
Scattered. North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region: highlands.
Language Status
9 (Dormant).
Language Use
Shifted to Spanish [spa].
Language Development
Dictionary.
Few traits of their pre-conquest American Indian culture remain.