Carib or Kariʼnja is a Cariban language spoken by the Kalina people (Caribs) of South America. It is spoken by around 7,400 mostly in Brazil, The Guianas...
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the islands. The resulting language—Kalhíphona or Island Carib—was Carib in name but largely Arawak in substance. The Carib male conquerors took Arawak...
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Macro-Tucanoan Equatorial (with Macro-Arawakan and Tupian) Ge–Pano–Carib Macro-Ge Macro-Panoan Macro-Carib Nambikwara Huarpe Taruma Below is the current state of...
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The Kalinago language, also known as Island Carib and Igneri (Iñeri, Inyeri, etc.), was an Arawakan language historically spoken by the Kalinago of the...
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an unusually high number of loanwords, from both Carib languages and a number of European languages because of an extremely tumultuous past involving...
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Kalinago (redirect from Island Carib)
spoke an unrelated language known as Kalinago or Island Carib. They also spoke a pidgin language associated with the Mainland Caribs. At the time of Spanish...
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Garifuna (redirect from Black Caribs)
traditionally speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language. The Garifuna are the descendants of Indigenous Arawak, Kalinago (Island Carib), and Afro-Caribbean people. The...
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Look up Carib in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carib may refer to: Kalina people, or Caribs, an Indigenous people of South America Carib language, also...
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Je–Tupi–Carib (or TuKaJê) is a proposed language family composed of the Macro-Je (or Macro-Gê), Tupian and Cariban languages of South America. Aryon Rodrigues...
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Dominica (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
Inyeri), was an Arawakan language historically spoken by the Island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. The Island Caribs lived throughout the...
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Antillean Creole (redirect from Antillean Creole language)
Its grammar and vocabulary include elements of Indigenous carib languages, African languages, Haitian Creole, French, and English. There are two main geographical...
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attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Arara branch. In the 15th century, the Juma language was a flamboyant language that was spoken...
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Igneri (section Island Carib connections)
historical Island Carib language developed from the existing tongue of the islands, and thus it is also known as Igneri. The idea that Island Carib men and women...
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Mapoyo, or Mapoyo–Yavarana, is a Carib language spoken along the Suapure and Parguaza Rivers, Venezuela. The ethnic population of Mapoyo proper is about...
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Kalina people (redirect from Mainland Carib)
They speak a Cariban language known as Carib. They may be related to the Island Caribs of the Caribbean, though their languages are unrelated. The exonym...
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Periagua (from Spanish piragua, in turn derived from the Carib language word for dugout) is the term formerly used in the Caribbean and the eastern seaboard...
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Martinique (redirect from Languages of Martinique)
Saint Lucia and Dominica. Martiniquan Creole is based on French, Carib and African languages with elements of English, Spanish, and Portuguese.[citation needed]...
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word passed into European languages from the Island Carib language or Taíno. The complex script used to write Mayan languages in pre-Columbian times and...
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Yarumá is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Arara branch, as does Gildea (1998). According to Carvalho (2020)...
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Saint Kitts and Nevis (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
Town on the west coast of St Kitts after achieving an agreement with the Carib chief Ouboutou Tegremante.: 15–18 The French later also settled on St Kitts...
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Chiquiana, Shikiana, Sikiâna, Sikïiyana, Xikiyana, Xikujana) is a Carib language that is spoken by 33 people in Brazil and 15 people in Suriname. It...
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Peccary (category Articles containing Galibi Carib-language text)
raised on farms as a source of food. The word peccary is derived from the Carib word pakira or paquira. In Portuguese, a peccary is called pecari, porco-do-mato...
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The Carib Queen is the leader of the Indigenous community in Trinidad and Tobago. The Queen, whose title was established in 1875, is based at the Santa...
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Creole garden (category Articles containing Galibi Carib-language text)
The Creole garden or jardin de case (hut garden) is a multi-strata, multi-use agroforestry system common in French Guiana, the West Indies and Réunion...
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Antigua and Barbuda (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
island of Antigua was originally called Waladli by the Arawaks, and the Caribs possibly called Barbuda Wa'omoni. Christopher Columbus, while sailing by...
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Tomalley (category Articles containing Galibi Carib-language text)
crabs, it is considered a delicacy. The word tomalley originates from the Carib word tumale, meaning a sauce of lobster liver. In Japan, tomalley is known...
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Yarigui people (section Language and culture)
humidity, which made life difficult for the inhabitants. Belonging to the Carib language family, the Yariguies were a people formed essentially of nomadic hunters...
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Cariban languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá River, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. It is one of around a dozen languages that...
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Salumá is a Carib language of Brazil. It is considered to be suprious by Glottolog, suggesting Tiriyó or Waiwai instead. Salumá at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
were major territory wars between the indigenous population of the Black Caribs, also called the Garifuna, and Great Britain in the 18th century, before...
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