Guaymí

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Guaymí, more commonly known today as the Ngäbe or Ngäbere people, are an Indigenous group of Central America primarily living in Panama and Costa Rica, recognized for their distinct language, traditional dress, and communal agricultural lifestyle.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Guaymí canonical 9
Guaymí people 6
Guaymí language 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
ethnic group
alternateName Ngäbe
Ngäbere people
linked to: Ngäbe people
autonymLanguageCode ISO 639-3: gym
colonialHistory subject to Spanish colonization
continent North America
country Costa Rica
Panama
culturalFeature communal agricultural lifestyle
distinct language
distinct traditional dress
culturalRegion Mesoamerica
currentLanguageName Ngäbere language
endonymScript Latin script
ethnonymLanguage Spanish
hasPhoneme ä (central vowel)
heritageStatus Indigenous cultural heritage group
historicalLanguageName Guaymí language
language Ngäbere
languageFamily Chibchan languages
linguisticStatus minority language speakers
migrationPattern internal migration within Panama
seasonal labor migration
partOf Ngäbe-Buglé people
politicalStatusInPanama recognized Indigenous comarca
populationCenter Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca
primaryHabitat mountainous regions
rural areas
recognizedAs Indigenous people of Costa Rica
Indigenous people of Panama
region Central America
relatedGroup Buglé people
religion Christianity
indigenous beliefs
selfDesignation Ngäbe
socialOrganization communal land tenure
extended family households
stapleCrop beans
maize
plantains
traditionalCraft basket weaving
beadwork
textile production
traditionalDress nagua
paruma
traditionalEconomy communal agriculture
subsistence agriculture

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ngäbere alternateName Guaymí
Ngäbere subfamily Guaymiic
linked to: Guaymí
Ngäbere ethnicGroup Guaymí people
linked to: Guaymí
Kuna language closelyRelatedTo Guaymí language
subject linked to: Kuna
linked to: Guaymí
Ngobe ethnicGroup Guaymí people
linked to: Guaymí
Ngobe exonym Guaymí
Ngäbe alternateName Guaymí
Chibchan languages languageFamilyOf Guaymí language
linked to: Guaymí
Chibchan peoples hasPart Guaymí people
linked to: Guaymí
Ngäbe-Buglé alsoKnownAs Guaymí
subject linked to: Ngobe-Bugle
Buglé people ethnolinguisticRelation Guaymí people
linked to: Guaymí
Buglé people relatedGroup Guaymí people
linked to: Guaymí
Ngöbe alternateName Guaymí
Buglere relatedTo Guaymí
Muoy-Bugle relatedTo Guaymí
Ngäbe-Buglé people ethnonymVariant Guaymí people
linked to: Guaymí