Carib languages

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Carib languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in northern South America and the Caribbean, historically associated with the Carib peoples and influential as a substrate in several regional creoles.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
alternativeName Carib language family
linked to: Carib languages

Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
associatedWith Carib peoples
commonWordOrder OV
endangermentStatus many member languages are endangered
geographicDistribution Brazil
Colombia
French Guiana
Guyana
linked to: British Guiana

Lesser Antilles (historically)
linked to: Lesser Antilles

Panama
Suriname
Venezuela
hasHistoricalRole substrate in Caribbean contact languages
substrate in coastal South American contact languages
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
person marking on verbs
hasNotableLanguage Akawaio language
Apalaí language
Bakairi language
Hixkaryana language
Ikpeng language
Kalinago language
Kariʼnja (Carib) language
linked to: Carib languages

Kuikuro language
Makushi language
Panare (Eʼñepa) language
linked to: Pemon language

Patamona language
Pemon language
Tiriyó language
Wayana language
Yeʼkwana language
Yukpa language
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventories in many languages
hasSubstrateInfluenceOn French Guianese creoles
linked to: Guianan Creole

Guyana creoles
Suriname creoles
regional creoles of the Caribbean
historicallySpokenBy Island Caribs
linked to: Carib peoples

Mainland Caribs
linked to: Carib peoples
languageBranchOf American indigenous languages
linguisticTypology agglutinative
mostly head-marking
researchField Cariban linguistics
spokenIn Caribbean region
linked to: Caribbean

northern South America
studiedIn contact linguistics of the Caribbean
historical linguistics of South America
writingSystem primarily Latin script (for languages with orthographies)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Antillean Creole hasSubstrateLanguage Carib languages
Pre-Columbian era includesCivilization Carib peoples
linked to: Carib languages
Arawakan languages hasLanguage Island Carib language
linked to: Carib languages
Carib languages alternativeName Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Carib languages alternativeName Carib language family
linked to: Carib languages
Carib languages hasNotableLanguage Kariʼnja (Carib) language
linked to: Carib languages
Kwéyòl hasSubstrateLanguage Carib languages
Xingu River languageRegionFor Karib languages
linked to: Carib languages
Friday's father language Carib language
linked to: Carib languages
Pemon languageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Carib peoples hasLanguageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Ikpeng language isPartOf Southern Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi hasSubstrateLanguage Carib languages
Wayana language family Cariban language family
linked to: Carib languages
Patamona language languageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Carib languageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Cari people languageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
American Indian languages haveSubgroup Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
Xingu peoples languageFamily Carib languages