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    Carib or Kari'nja 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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    language death, but an offshoot survives as Garifuna, primarily in Central America. Despite its name, Kalinago was not closely related to the Carib language...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Kalinago (redirect from Island Carib)
    they spoke an unrelated language known as Island Carib. They also spoke a pidgin language associated with the Mainland Caribs. At the time of Spanish...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Garifuna (redirect from Black Caribs)
    Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and Vincentian Creole. The Garifuna are the descendants of indigenous Arawak, Kalinago (Island Carib), and Afro-Caribbean...
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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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  • Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Arara branch. Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. In the 15th Century, the Juma language was a flamboyant...
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  • South America The Caribe, or Island Caribs, an indigenous people of the Caribbean The Carib language, the language of the Kalina people A local term for...
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  • Chiquiana, Shikiana, Sikiâna, Sikïiyana, Xikiyana, Xikujana) is a Carib language that was 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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  • 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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    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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    Carriacou (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    and the north coast of South America. The name is derived from the Carib language Kayryouacou. Carriacou is part of the Carriacou and Petite Martinique...
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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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    Pirogue (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
    French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which comes from the Carib piraua. The term 'pirogue' does not refer to a specific kind of boat, but...
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    called Wadadli by the Arawaks and is locally known by that name today; the Caribs possibly called Barbuda Wa'omoni. Christopher Columbus, while sailing by...
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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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    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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    Saint Martin (island) (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
    cuisine. English is the most commonly spoken language along with a local dialect. The official languages are French for Saint-Martin, and both Dutch and...
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  • the English, French and African languages. There has also been a recorded syntactical influence of the Carib language. It remains in widespread use in...
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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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  • Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, Anacaioury) is an extinct Cariban language of Trinidad and French Guiana, attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes...
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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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    Tobago (category Articles containing Island Carib-language text)
    Kalina (mainland Caribs) called the island Urupina because of its resemblance to a big snail,: 84–85  while the Kalinago (Island Caribs) called it Aloubaéra...
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  • Salumá is a Carib language of Brazil. Salumá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
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