Cueva was the name assigned by Spanish colonists to various
Indigenous populations they encountered in Eastern
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
. Although it has been used variously to describe a specific ethnicity, many scholars believe that the peoples who used the
Cueva language belonged to multiple ethnolinguistic groups, and that this language was in fact a
lingua franca
A lingua franca (; ; for plurals see ), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a Natural language, language systematically used to make co ...
.
See also
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Cueva language
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Guna people
The Guna (also spelled Kuna or Cuna) are an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. Guna people live in three politically autonomous '' comarcas'' or autonomous reservations in Panama, and in a few small villages in Colombia. There are also co ...
References
Further reading
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Whitehead, Neil L. (1999). The crises and transformations of invaded societies: The Caribbean (1492–1580). In F. Salomon & S. B. Schwartz (Eds.), ''The Cambridge history of the native peoples of South America: South America'' (Vol. 3, Pt. 1, pp. 864–903). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
History of Panama
Ethnic groups in Panama
Extinct Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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