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    The Mayangna (also known as Ulwa, Sumu or Sumo) are a people who live on the eastern coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras, an area commonly known as the Mosquito...
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    Costa Rica Miskito people, -1700 AD, Nicaragua Mayangna people, 1700 AD, Nicaragua Cacaopera people, 1700 AD, Nicaragua Indigenous peoples of the Americas...
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    within the boundaries, about 35,000 of them indigenous Miskito and Mayangna people.[citation needed] The Bosawás Biosphere Reserve developed over time...
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  • Honduras. Hale & Salamanca (2001) classify the Sumu languages into a northern Mayangna, composed of the Tawahka and Panamahka dialects, and southern Ulwa. Sumu...
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  • some historians, the natives of this region were descendants of the Mayangna people of the Chontales Department, from the Caribbean of the Atlantic coast;...
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    The Cacaopera people also known as the Matagalpa or Ulúa., are an indigenous people in what is now El Salvador and Nicaragua. The Matagalpa are one of...
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    Gilles Bataillon, " Cambios culturales y sociopolíticos en las comunidades Mayangnas y Miskitos del río Bocay y del alto río Coco, Nicaragua (1979–2000) "...
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  • of Russia (sometimes known as a sumu in Inner Mongolia). Mayangna people, an indigenous people of Central America Sumo languages Sumu Wildlife Park, in...
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    Indigenous culture in eastern Nicaragua is the Mayangna (or Sumu) people, counting some 10,000 people. A smaller Indigenous culture in southeastern Nicaragua...
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    culture is diverse, being Miskito culture the dominant, followed by Creole, Mayangna and Latino. The culture, like the rest of Nicaragua's Caribbean coast,...
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  • Yasika (category Indigenous peoples of Central America)
    Department. Yasica is the name of a region that divides Matagalpa to the Mayangna territory in the so-called Caribbean Coast. Swanton, John Reed (1952)....
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    Miskitu, Mestizo, as well as smaller communities of Garinagu, Chinese, Mayangna, and Rama. Bluefields is Nicaragua’s chief Caribbean port, from which hardwood...
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    this plant to make a ball used in a ceremonial game. The Miskitu and Mayangna peoples of the Mosquito Coast, stretching from the Honduras to Nicaragua, traditionally...
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    and Venezuela. These groups include the present-day Miskitos, Ramas and Mayangna. In the 19th century, there was a substantial indigenous minority, but...
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    total population) living in a small area in the Olancho department; the Mayangna or Tawahka (2,463 in 2001; <0.1%) Examples of Honduran natives are the...
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    Nicaragua but some in Honduras. Many of them have shifted to Miskito. Mayangna - dominant variety of the Sumo family Ulwa Matagalpan Cacaopera † – formerly...
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    are indigenous groups formed by the mixture of African descent and the Mayangna, Rama, and Miskitos indigenous ethnic groups. Their African ancestors were...
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    the southeast. Indigenous groups included Maya, Lenca, Pech, Miskitu, Mayangna (Sumu), Jicaque, Pipil and Chorotega. Two indigenous leaders are particularly...
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    Misumalpan languages of Mayangna and Ulwa are spoken by the respective peoples of the same names. Many Miskito, Mayangna, and Sumo people also speak Miskito...
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  • Miskitu) Sumalpan peoples Sumo (Mayangna): Nicaragua Tolupan/Jicaque: Honduras Zambo/Cafuso peoples (mixed West African and Amerindian peoples) Garífuna: A...
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  • believed that the first inhabitants were of Mayangna-Carib origin, who were displaced by the Chontales people. The last Carib settlement was "El Jobo,"...
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    region, it remained independent of outside control. This allowed the native people to continue their traditional way of life and to receive visitors from other...
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    Miskito language is dominant and official in the region, followed by Mayangna and Spanish. The city is served by Puerto Lempira Airport, which operates...
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    Pre-Columbian Honduras (category Indigenous peoples in Honduras)
    villages found the following: Xicaques, Pech people, Tawahka [es] / Mayangna (Sumo) and Miskito people. Into this group, falls the majority of the population...
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  • Awas Tingni (category Mayangna)
    Awas Tingni is an Indigenous Mayangna community of some 2,400 members on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, in the municipality of Waspam in the North Caribbean...
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    dialects. Several of these (Tawahka, Panamahka and Tuahka) constitute the Mayangna sub-branch of Sumo, while the Ulwa language is in another sub-branch. The...
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    by Native American people known as Mayangnas and Matagalpas. Later arrivals include the Nahua from Mexico and the Chorotega peoples from Cholula. One of...
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    neighborhoods have Spanish names. The population is 99.7% Mestizo, .2% Mayangna, .07% Miskito, and .01% Creole. The town of Siuna was the site of La Luz...
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  • Second official according to the Constitution "Draft constitution riles San people". NewsDay. AMH. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2018. "Field Listing...
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    including monolinguals) Mískito (Misumalpan) (29,000 speakers in Honduras) Mayangna (Misumalpan) (less than 1000 speakers in Honduras, more in Nicaragua) Pech/Paya...
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