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Miskito

Miskito may refer to:

  • Miskito people, indigenous group in Honduras and Nicaragua
    • Miskito Sambu, branch of Miskito people with African admixture
    • Tawira Miskito, branch of Miskito people of largely indigenous origin
  • Miskito language, original language of the Miskito people
  • Miskito Coastal Creole, English based creole spoken in Nicaragua
  • Miskito Languages, alternate name for Misumalpan languages
  • Miskito Coast, alternate name for Mosquito Coast
  • Miskito Cays, group of small islands in the Caribbean near Nicaragua

Usage examples of "miskito".

When I did that documentary on the Miskito Indians in Central America, I went on hunts with them and slept in the mud.

Now they fought the tyranny of the Soviet Sandinistas, who had initiated a program of forced collectivization of the Miskito tribes.

The three members of Able Team and a Miskito, a teenager who moved with the calm and efficiency of a career soldier, removed the heavy gear from the boat.

Able Team, laden with equipment, needed the help of three Miskito soldiers.

When I was in Nicaragua in October 1993, church sources -- the Christian Evangelical Church, primarily, which works in the Atlantic coast -- were reporting that 100,000 Miskitos were starving to death as a result of the policies we were imposing on Nicaragua.

Church sources, the Christian Evangelical Church, primarily, who work in the Atlantic coast, were reporting that 100,000 Miskitos were starving to death, largely as a result of the policies that we are imposing on Nicaragua.