ribri is a Chibchan language spoken by an estimated 11,000 people in the south of Costa Rica. Mainly living off hunting and subsistence agriculture, the Bribri represent the Indigenous population of the Costa Rica-Panama border area and still live in mountainous and coastal areas for the most part isolated from the general population. Three Chibchan dialects have been identified, identified by the Ethnologue as Amubre-Katsi, Coroma, or Salitre-Cabagra, or as belonging to two parts of Talamanca Canton and the area of Buenos Aires Canton. There are scattered speakers of Chibchan languages, including Birbri, living in the United States, but no known established communities. ELA has worked with construction worker Robert Elizondo and a friend of his, who were living in Paterson, New Jersey and are native speakers of the language. Among the texts recorded were descriptions of how to make chicha (a traditional corn-fermented alcohol) and how to make a blowgun for hunting. Read more here.