ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

North America · ISO 639-3 cab · Glottocode gari1256

Garifuna

Garifuna expands North America with an Arawakan language recorded in four Central American source countries.

Language family
Arawakan
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
not endangered
Macroarea
North America
Source country codes
BZ · GT · HN · NI
Reference point
15.353, -86.909

Open research question

How can cross-border communities, orthographic practice and intergenerational transmission be documented from sources?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.