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- Cariban_languages abstract "The Cariban languages are an indigenous language family of South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, but also appear in central Brazil. Cariban languages are relatively closely related, and number two to three dozen, depending on what is considered a dialect. Most are still spoken, though often by only a few hundred speakers; the only one with more than a few thousand is Macushi, with 30,000. The Cariban family is well known in the linguistic world partly because Hixkaryana has a default object–verb–subject word order, previously thought not to exist in human language.Some years prior to the arrival of the first Spanish explorers, Caribs invaded and occupied the Lesser Antilles, killing, displacing or assimilating the Arawaks who inhabited the islands. The resulting language was Carib in name but largely Arawak in substance. This was due to invading Carib men killing Arawak men and taking Arawak wives, who then passed their language on to the children. For a time, Arawak was spoken by women and children and Carib by adult men, but the situation was unstable. As each generation of Carib-Arawak boys reached adulthood, they acquired less Carib, until only basic vocabulary and a few grammatical elements were left. This "Island Carib" went extinct in the Lesser Antilles in the 1920s, but survives in the form of Garífuna, or "Black Carib", in Central America. The gender distinction has dwindled to only a handful of words. Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population—the Carib Indians—about 3,000 of whom live on the island's east coast.".
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- Cariban_languages wikiPageExternalLink 38.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageExternalLink www.etnolinguistica.org.
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- Cariban_languages wikiPageLength "8754".
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- Cariban_languages wikiPageRevisionID "669087188".
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Akawaio_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Akurio_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Akuriyó_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Amazon_River.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Amonap_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Andes.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Apalaí_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Apiaká-Apingi_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Apingi_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arakajú_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arawak.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arawak_peoples.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arawakan_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arawaks.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Atruahí_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Bakairi_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Bakairí_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Boanarí_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Carib_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Carijona_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cariban_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Indigenous_languages_of_the_South_American_Northeast.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Venezuela.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Chaima_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Colombia.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Coyaima_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Cumanagota_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Cumanagoto_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dominica.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Exploration.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Explorer.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Extinct_languages_of_the_Marañón_River_basin.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Galibi_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Garifuna_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Gê_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Hianákoto_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Hixkaryana.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Hixkaryana_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Ikpeng_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Island_Carib_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Island_Carib_people.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Island_Caribs.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Japreria_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Japrería_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Je–Tupi–Carib.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Je–Tupi–Carib_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Juma_language_(Carib).
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Jê_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kapóng_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kaxuiâna_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kuikuro_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kuikúro_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Language_family.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Lesser_Antilles.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Spanish_words_of_Indigenous_American_Indian_origin.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Macushi_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mapoyo-Yabarana_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mapoyo_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Maquiritari_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Matipuhy_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Opon_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Opón_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Palmela_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Panare_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Paravilyana_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pará_Arára_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Patagon_language_(Peru).
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Patamona_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pawishiana_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pemon_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pijao_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pimenteira_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pre-Columbian.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pre-Columbian_era.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Purukotó_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pémono_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Salumá_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Sapará_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Sikiana_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink South_America.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Spaniards.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Spanish_people.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tamanaku_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Taíno_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tiriyó_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tiverikoto_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tupi_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tupian_languages.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Txikão_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Waimiri-Atroarí_language.
- Cariban_languages wikiPageWikiLink Waiwai_language.