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.

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

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