# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolfo-constenla-umana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:56:00.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolfo-constenla-umana"
name: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
slug: "adolfo-constenla-umana"
description: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña was a Costa Rican philologist and linguist who specialized in the indigenous languages of Central America. He is especially known as a leading scholar on Chibchan languages, and some sources referred to him as the \"father of Chibchan linguistics.\""
tagline: "Costa Rican writer and linguist (1948-2013)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-01-14"
deathDate: "2013-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.03
  momentum:             12.5
  historical:           5.068934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
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    title: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constenla_Uma%C3%B1a"
    title: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constenla_Uma%C3%B1a"
    title: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constenla_Uma%C3%B1a"
    title: "Adolfo Constenla Umaña"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8189543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump