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In the Guna language, they call themselves Dule or Tule, meaning "people", and the name of the language is Dulegaya, literally "people-mouth". [2] The term was in the language itself spelled Kuna prior to a 2010 orthographic reform, [ 3 ] but the Congreso General de la Nación Gunadule since 2010 has promoted the spelling Guna .
Panama had a female president as their national leader, in the person of Mireya Moscoso, who was Panama's first female president, serving from 1999 to 2004. [ 4 ] The literacy rate (as of 2015) is estimated at 94.4% for females and 95.7% for males (aged 15 and over).
Guaymí is an outdated name, derived by the Spanish colonists from the Buglere term for this people (guaymiri). Local newspapers and other media often alternatively spell the name Ngäbe as Ngobe or Ngöbe because Spanish does not contain the sound represented by ä, a low-back rounded a, slightly higher than the English aw in the word saw.
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Despite Panama's location in Central America, Panamanian Spanish is considered a Caribbean variety. [ 3 ] The variations among different speaker groups of the same language can be lexical (vocabulary), phonological (pronunciation), morphological (word forms), or in the use of syntax (grammar).
Panama, [a] officially the Republic of Panama, [b] is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
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