Carib language
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| Carib Kaliña, cariña |
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| Spoken in: | Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela | |
| Total speakers: | 10 226 | |
| Language family: | Cariban Northern Galibi Carib |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | crb | |
| ISO 639-3: | car | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Carib, also known as Caribe, Cariña, Galibi, Galibí, Kali'na, Kalihna, Kalinya, Galibi Carib, Maraworno and Marworno, is an Amerindian language in the Cariban language family. It is spoken by 10 226 people, 7251 of which are from Venezuela.
[edit] Alphabet
The Carib alphabet consists of 17 letters: a, b, d, e, g, i, j, k, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, and w.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding French Wikipedia article as of 25 February 2007.
- Galibi (True Carib)
[edit] External links
- Carib language at Ethnologue
- Carib language at Linguist List
- Carib-English Online Interactive Dictionary
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