Cabiyari language

E177420

The Cabiyari language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Cabiyari people of the northwestern Amazon region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Cabiyari language canonical 1
Cabiyarí language 1

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Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
South American language
indigenous language
belongsToSubgroup Arawakan languages
surface form: Northern Arawakan languages
continent South America
ethnicity Cabiyari people
hasAncestor Arawakan languages
surface form: Proto-Arawakan language
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive nasalization
moderate consonant inventory
small vowel inventory
hasTypology head-marking language
mostly suffixing morphology
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant word order
ISO639-3Code cbb
languageFamily Arawakan languages
lexicalBorrowingFrom Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
region northwestern Amazon
spokenBy Cabiyari people
spokenIn Amazon rainforest
surface form: Amazon rainforest region

border area of Colombia and Brazil
status endangered language
usedFor daily communication within Cabiyari communities
oral tradition
ritual communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (2)

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

Arawakan languages hasLanguage Cabiyari language
Maipurean languages member Cabiyari language
this entity surface form: Cabiyarí language