Southern Cariban
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Southern Cariban is a branch of the Cariban language family comprising several indigenous languages spoken primarily in parts of Brazil and neighboring regions of South America.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Cariban languages | 1 |
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language branch
ⓘ
subgroup of Cariban languages ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | varies by language, from poorly documented to relatively well described ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Portuguese ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Xingu River basin
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ⓘ
central Brazil ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex person marking on verbs
ⓘ
postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasMemberLanguage |
Arara of Mato Grosso
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ⓘ
Bakairi NERFINISHED ⓘ Ikpeng NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalapalo NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuikuro NERFINISHED ⓘ Matipuhy NERFINISHED ⓘ Yawalapiti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Arara–Karo languages
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ⓘ
Bakairi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ikpeng language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuikuro–Kalapalo languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Matipuhy language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yawalapiti language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Cariban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticClassification | American indigenous languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Cariban language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
northern Brazil
ⓘ
southern Guiana Shield ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Central Cariban
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ⓘ
Northern Cariban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchField |
anthropological linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenBy | indigenous peoples of Brazil ⓘ |
| status | many languages endangered ⓘ |
| studiedBy | field linguists working in Brazilian Amazonia ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative morphology (typical of Cariban) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ritual speech among Xingu peoples
ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| wordOrder | tends toward verb-final or flexible word order ⓘ |
| writingSystem | primarily Latin script (for documented languages) ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Southern Cariban languages