Kariaí language
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| Kariaí | |
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| Cariyai | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Roraima[1] |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | cari1280 |
| Linguasphere | 82-AJB-aa |
Kariaí (Cariyai) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is documented in a wordlist by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in the 1810s.[2]
Classification
[edit]Kaufman (1994)[full citation needed] placed it in his Manao (Middle Rio Negro) branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).[full citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell, Lyle. 1997. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America, 180-181. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195094271
- ^ von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip (1867). Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens. Vol. II. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer.
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