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Encyclopedia > Guahibo language
Guahibo
Spoken in: Colombia, Venezuela 
Region: Casanare, eastern Meta, Vichada, Guaviare, Guainia states (Colombia)

Orinoco River (Venezuela)

Total speakers: 18,772 in Colombia (1993 census), 5,000 in Venezuela
Language family: Guahiban
 Guahibo
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: guh

Guahibo is a Guahiban language that is spoken by about 19,000 people in Colombia and additional 5000 in Venezuela. There is a 40% rate of monolingalism, and a 45% literacy rate. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...


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