Cariban
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Cariban (not comparable)
- Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.
- Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
- Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Cariban languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia