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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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