what language do people speak in costa rica?
Spanish Language
entailment
 The official languages of the country are French and Sango ; the latter ( originally a language from the Ubangi River region ) is spoken by 90 % of the population . Some of the other languages spoken are Baya ( Gbaya ) , Banda , Ngbaka , Sara , Mbum , Kare , and Mandjia . Sango was simplified by Christian missionaries and is widely used to this day . 

entailment
 Costanoan comprises eight dialects or separate languages : Awaswas , Chalon , Chochenyo ( aka Chocheño ) , Karkin , Mutsun , Ramaytush , Rumsien , and Tamyen . 

contradiction
 In Guatemala , matters such as developing standardized orthographies for the Mayan languages are governed by the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ( ALMG ; Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages ) , which was founded by Maya organisations in 1986 . Following the 1996 peace accords , it has been gaining a growing recognition as the regulatory authority on Mayan languages both among Mayan scholars and the Maya peoples . 

neutral
 In addition to the aforementioned West African countries , ASL is reported to be used as a first language in Barbados , Bolivia , Cambodia , the Central African Republic , Chad , China ( Hong Kong ) , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Gabon , Jamaica , Kenya , Madagascar , the Philippines , Singapore , and Zimbabwe . ASL is also used as a lingua franca throughout the deaf world , widely learned as a second language . 

contradiction
 Today , a spectrum of Nahuan languages are spoken in an scattered areas stretching from the northern state of Durango to Tabasco in the southeast . Pipil , the southernmost Nahuan language , is spoken in El Salvador by a small number of speakers . According to IRIN @-@ International , the Nawat Language Recovery Initiative project , there are no reliable figures for the contemporary numbers of speakers of Pipil . Numbers may range anywhere from " perhaps a few hundred people , perhaps only a few dozen " . 
