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Costa Rica's official and predominant language is Spanish.The variety spoken there, Costa Rican Spanish, is a form of Central American Spanish. Costa Rica is a linguistically diverse country and home to at least five living local indigenous languages spoken by the descendants of pre-Columbian peoples: Maléku, Cabécar, Bribri, Guaymí, and Buglere.
The majority of the Afro-Costa Ricans are Creole English-speaking descendants of 19th century black Jamaican immigrant workers. Costa Rican school children The 2011 census classified 83.6% of the population as white or Mestizo ; the latter have combined European and Native American descent.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Bilbao all boast large English-speaking expat communities, ... Costa Rica. Costa Rica's natural beauty is a big selling point. Even in a world of beauty, it's hard ...
Costa Rica's border regions with Panama show higher rates of /s/-reduction (syllable-final /s/ is pronounced in border regions of Costa Rica and Nicaragua). [6] Between vowels, /s/ is frequently voiced. This is most common in faster, spontaneous speech, before unstressed vowels, and word-finally, and is also more common among men than women. [7]
“Residents of Costa Rica have access to free emergency treatment, low-cost medical procedures, and free or almost free prescription medicines as part of the country’s healthcare system ...
Costa Rica has four small minority groups: Mulattos, Blacks, Amerindians and Asians. About 8% of the population is of African descent or Mulatto (mix of European and African) who are called Afro-Costa Ricans, English-speaking descendants of 19th century Afro-Jamaican immigrant workers.
Limonese Creole (also called Limonese, Limón Creole English or Mekatelyu) is a dialect of Jamaican Patois (Jamaican Creole), an English-based creole language, spoken in Limón Province on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica. The number of native speakers is unknown, but 1986 estimates suggests that there are fewer than 60,000 native and ...