Huetar language

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Huetar (Güetar) is an extinct Chibchan language of Costa Rica that was spoken by the Huetar people.^[2] It served as the lingua franca for precolonial peoples in central Costa Rica, and went extinct in the 17th century. Only a few words in the language are currently known, preserved mainly in the names of various Costa Rican places, such as Aserrí, Barva, Curridabat, Turrialba, Tucurrique, and Ujarrás.

Huetar
Güetar
Native to	Costa Rica
Ethnicity	Huetar people
Extinct	early 20th century^[1]
Language family	Chibchan Votic Huetar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`huet1235`

The main source of studies regarding the language is the Costa Rican linguist Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco.

Bibliography

Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel (1996). Los huetares: Historia, etnografía y tradición oral. Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-66-070-7.

References

↑ Nación, Por Redacción de La (2017-03-19). "¿Son 'Costa Rica 'y 'upe' de origen huetar?". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-21.
↑ Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Angel (1990-01-01). "La lengua huetar". Estudios De Linguistica Chibcha.

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