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Definition of Cariban in English: Caribanadjective ˈkarɪb(ə)nˈkarəbən Relating to or denoting a family of South American languages scattered widely throughout Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia. With the exception of Carib, they are all extinct or have few speakers. Example sentencesExamples - They don't seem to be either Arawakan or Cariban, and they don't seem to be related to Warao either.
- The latter had two aboriginal stocks, Arawakan and Cariban, which are also found in South America.
- Rouse suggests that Arawakan and Cariban are more useful designations for these linguistic stocks.
noun ˈkarɪb(ə)nˈkarəbən mass nounThe Cariban family of languages. Example sentencesExamples - This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil.
- I have been working on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas (Cariban and Arawakan) since 1996.
- In the aboriginal period the Cariban languages were important in the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia.
- By comparing negation in kari'ña with that of other languages of the same family, it is clear that it works in a very similar way in the different Cariban languages.
- Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.
- In other analyses of Cariban languages it has been claimed that the oblique (goal-case) marking of the agent of a transitive verb is indicative of ergative syntax.
Definition of Cariban in US English: Caribanadjectiveˈkarəbən Of, belonging to, or denoting a family of South American languages scattered widely throughout Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia. With the exception of Carib, they are all extinct or nearly so. Example sentencesExamples - They don't seem to be either Arawakan or Cariban, and they don't seem to be related to Warao either.
- The latter had two aboriginal stocks, Arawakan and Cariban, which are also found in South America.
- Rouse suggests that Arawakan and Cariban are more useful designations for these linguistic stocks.
nounˈkarəbən The Cariban family of languages. Example sentencesExamples - In the aboriginal period the Cariban languages were important in the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia.
- This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil.
- By comparing negation in kari'ña with that of other languages of the same family, it is clear that it works in a very similar way in the different Cariban languages.
- Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.
- In other analyses of Cariban languages it has been claimed that the oblique (goal-case) marking of the agent of a transitive verb is indicative of ergative syntax.
- I have been working on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas (Cariban and Arawakan) since 1996.
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