Carib languages

E39066
indigenous language family language family

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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All labels observed (10)

Label Occurrences
Cariban languages 7
Carib languages canonical 5
Carib language 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family ⓘ
language family ⓘ
alternativeName Carib languages ⓘ
surface form: Carib language family

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

Lesser Antilles ⓘ
surface form: Lesser Antilles (historically)

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 ⓘ
Carib languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Kariʼnja (Carib) language

Kuikuro language ⓘ
Makushi language ⓘ
Pemon language ⓘ
surface form: Panare (Eʼñepa) language

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

Guyana creoles ⓘ
Suriname creoles ⓘ
regional creoles of the Caribbean ⓘ
historicallySpokenBy Carib peoples ⓘ
surface form: Island Caribs

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

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

Referenced by (20)

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

Antillean Creole → hasSubstrateLanguage → Carib languages ⓘ
Pre-Columbian era → includesCivilization → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Carib peoples
Arawakan languages → hasLanguage → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Island Carib language
Carib languages → alternativeName → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
Carib languages → alternativeName → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Carib language family
Carib languages → hasNotableLanguage → Carib languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kariʼnja (Carib) language
Kwéyòl → hasSubstrateLanguage → Carib languages ⓘ
Xingu River → languageRegionFor → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Karib languages
Friday's father → language → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Carib language
Pemon → languageFamily → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
Carib peoples → hasLanguageFamily → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
Ikpeng language → isPartOf → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Cariban languages
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi → hasSubstrateLanguage → Carib languages ⓘ
Wayana language → family → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban language family
Patamona language → languageFamily → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
Carib → languageFamily → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
Cari people → languageFamily → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
American Indian languages → haveSubgroup → Carib languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cariban languages
Xingu Indigenous Park → languageFamiliesPresent → Carib languages ⓘ
Xingu peoples → languageFamily → Carib languages ⓘ