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Encyclopedia entries related to "Cariban languages"

Bakairi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Brazilian Indians who speak a Carib language. They consider themselves Indians on the basis of language, occupation of a reservation given...kilometer. Linguistic Affiliation. A Cariban language, Bakairi belongs to one of the four...
Yukpa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Linguistic Affiliation. Yukpan belongs to the Carib Language Family. Various dialects of Yukpan are spoken. Dialects...Venezuela, but linguistic analysis indicates that the Cariban language began to diverge around 4500 B.P., culminating...
Paya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...nevertheless, the Paya language is nearly extinct in the latter town. The language itself is difficult to...related to the Chibchan and Cariban languages of South America. The...able to speak the Payan language. Even more striking is...
Caribs
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...scarification (ritual cutting of the skin) and fasting. The Carib language was spoken only by the men, while the women spoke Arawak...a reservation on the island of Dominica. The Carib, or Cariban, languages are a separate family. Carib-speaking tribes are found...
Garifuna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...In spite of their name, their language is basically of the Arawakan Family...although there is a heavy overlay of Cariban, which may once have been a pidgin trading language for them. Linguists term their language Island Carib to distinguish it...
Barama River Carib
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...fertility rate. Linguistic Affiliation. The Barama River Carib speak a Carib language of the larger Cariban Phylum. In the 1970s they recognized two forms of their language. "Deep Carib" is less affected by modern borrowing and is more commonly...
Apalai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Linguistic Affiliation. The Apalai language belongs to the Carib Languague...precisely to the northern Cariban of Guiana. History and Cultural...that most of them spoke Carib languages. They inhabited an area between...war, notably against the Cariban Wayana to the north and the...to the study of ...
Baniwa-Curripaco-Wakuenai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...lingua geral (the old trade language of Jesuit missionaries spoken...Wakuenai" ("people of our language") is an ethnonym used for...belong to the Northern Maipure Language Family and speak five mutually...were Tukanoans and probably Cariban-speaking peoples. Wakuenai...

Dictionary entries related to "Cariban languages"

Carib
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela. 2. the Cariban language of this people. Also called Galibi . • adj. of or relating to the Caribs or their language. ∎  of or relating to Island Carib...

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Four languages from the lower end of the typology of locative predication *.(Report)
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...genetically diverse languages: Chukchi (Chukotko...existential verb for the language; Tiriyo (Cariban/Taranoan, Brazil...position focus" languages, which use verbs...Andersen 2006). The languages in question belong to four unrelated language families: Saliba...1999), Tiriyo ...
Contrasting contrastive demonstratives in Tiriyo and Lavukaleve.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...function of demonstratives in two languages, Tiriyo (Cariban, northern Brazil) and Lavukaleve...demonstratives in these two languages, this article aims to show...empirical studies in specific languages. Descriptions usually employ...
Individuals in a Collectivist World: Born in the U.S.A., Teaching in Caracas, Venezuela
Magazine article from: Multicultural Education; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...nomadic hunter-gatherer societies, remain. Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban, and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories. The country is predominantly...
Is Japreria a Yukpa Dialect?
Magazine article from: Lingua Americana; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Japreria. an indigenous language spoken in the Sierra...partially identified the Cariban family in South America...and classification of languages, Japreria and Yukpa...closely related within the Cariban family. Key words...Japreria, Yukpa-Yuko, Cariban. Es el japreria, un...native speakers ...