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.

Aliases (5)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	indigenous language family → language family →
alternativeName	Carib language family → Cariban languages →
associatedWith	Carib peoples →
commonWordOrder	OV →
endangermentStatus	many member languages are endangered →
geographicDistribution	Brazil → Colombia → French Guiana → Guyana → 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 → Kariʼnja (Carib) language → Kuikuro language → Makushi language → Panare (Eʼñepa) language → Patamona language → Pemon language → Tiriyó language → Wayana language → Yeʼkwana language → Yukpa language →
hasPhonologicalFeature	rich consonant inventories in many languages →
hasSubstrateInfluenceOn	French Guianese creoles → Guyana creoles → Suriname creoles → regional creoles of the Caribbean →
historicallySpokenBy	Island Caribs → Mainland Caribs →
languageBranchOf	American indigenous languages →
linguisticTypology	agglutinative → mostly head-marking →
researchField	Cariban linguistics →
spokenIn	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 (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Carib languages ("Cariban languages") → Carib languages ("Carib language family") →	alternativeName
Antillean Creole → Kwéyòl →	hasSubstrateLanguage
Arawakan languages ("Island Carib language") →	hasLanguage
Carib languages ("Kariʼnja (Carib) language") →	hasNotableLanguage
Pre-Columbian era ("Carib peoples") →	includesCivilization