Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an American Indian people inhabiting the Caribbean coast of northeast Nicaragua and southeast Honduras.
- noun The language of the Miskito.
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- proper noun The Miskito language.
- noun A member of the
Amerindian people who dwell/dwelt on the Atlantic coastline ofNicaragua andHonduras .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the valleys and along the Caribbean coast, some 5,000 Miskito and Paya Amerindians continue to live in their traditional ways.
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A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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She was this little Miskito [native] woman and she had $80,000.
Boing Boing 2008
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The four existing groups are the Miskito Amerindians, the Paya (Pesh) indigenes, Garífunas of Afro-Caribbean descent, and the older ladino (mixed Spanish-Amerindian) settlers.
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The Miskito are the largest group, of around 4,500 people living in coastal settlements and two towns on the Tinto river.
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Sinbad is later reborn as a member of the Miskito tribe living on the banks of the Coco River.
Berlinale Forum - Born in Defiance, Surviving with Integrity 2009
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Languages: Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) (note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast)
Nicaragua 2009
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Rendered by its indigenous Miskito residents as Miskitia, this is the remote area of rainforest and coastal wetlands along the Nicaraguan border in the Caribbean zone.
Nikolas Kozloff: Honduras: Who's The Real Drug Trafficker? 2009
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La sirena y el buzo (The Mermaid and the Diver) layers elements of narrative and essay onto what look like unstaged documentary sequences of life in a Miskito fishing village to tell "an imaginary tale transporting us to reality," in the words of director Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez:
Berlinale Forum - Born in Defiance, Surviving with Integrity 2009
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NicaraguaSpanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast
Languages 2008
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