Carijona language

E772722

The Carijona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Carijona people of Colombia, now highly endangered with only a small number of elderly speakers remaining.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Carijona language canonical 1
Karihona (Carijona) language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
language ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea South America ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Colombia ⓘ
endangermentStatus highly endangered ⓘ
geneticClassification Cariban > Guianan Carib branch ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Carijona ⓘ
Hianacoto ⓘ
Karihona ⓘ
hasEthnicPopulation Carijona people ⓘ
hasGlottocode cari1279 ⓘ
hasGlottologName Carijona ⓘ
hasMorphologyType suffixing ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunity Carijona indigenous communities ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb) (tendency) ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Colombia ⓘ
ISO639-3Code cbd ⓘ
languageFamily Cariban languages ⓘ
linked to: Carib languages
numberOfSpeakers very few ⓘ
region Amazonas Department, Colombia ⓘ
Caquetá River region ⓘ
riskOfExtinction severe ⓘ
spokenBy Carijona people ⓘ
spokenByAgeGroup primarily elderly speakers ⓘ
spokenIn Colombia ⓘ
status moribund ⓘ
typologicalClassification agglutinative language ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Yukpa language → closelyRelatedTo → Carijona language ⓘ
Guianan Carib → hasSubgroup → Karihona (Carijona) language ⓘ
linked to: Carijona language