Editing Costa Rica (section)

=== Languages ===
{{main|Languages of Costa Rica}}
The primary language spoken in Costa Rica is Spanish, which features characteristics [[Costa Rican Spanish|distinct to the country]], 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.

Of native languages still spoken, primarily in indigenous reservations, the most numerically important are the [[Bribri language|Bribri]], [[Maléku language|Maléku]], [[Cabécar language|Cabécar]] and [[Ngäbere language]]s; some of these have several thousand speakers in Costa Rica while others have a few hundred. Some languages, such as [[Teribe language|Teribe]] and [[Boruca language|Boruca]], have fewer than a thousand speakers. The [[Buglere]] language and the closely related [[Guaymí language|Guaymí]] are spoken by some in southeast Puntarenas.<ref name="worldatlas.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-costa-rica.html|title=What Languages Are Spoken In Costa Rica?|website=WorldAtlas|date=17 July 2019|access-date=22 November 2020|archive-date=8 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608113503/https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-costa-rica.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

A [[English-based creole language|Creole-English]] language, [[Jamaican Patois|Jamaican ''patois'']] (also known as [[Limonese Creole|Mekatelyu]]), is an English-based Creole language spoken by the Afro-Carib immigrants who have settled primarily in Limón Province along the Caribbean coast.<ref name="worldatlas.com"/>

About 10.7% of Costa Rica's adult population (18 or older) also speaks English, 0.7% French, and 0.3% speaks [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] or German as a second language.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/marzo/11/pais1457622.html|title=Solo 1 de cada 10 adultos habla un segundo idioma|publisher=[[La Nación (Costa Rica)]]|author=Jairo Villegas|date=13 March 2008|access-date=22 July 2010|archive-date=17 July 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717122852/http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/marzo/11/pais1457622.html|url-status=live}}</ref>