Island Carib | |
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Kalhíphona | |
Spoken in | Dominica, St Vincent, Trinidad |
Ethnicity | Igneri |
Extinct | 1920 |
Language family | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | crb |
Island Carib, also known as Iñeri (Igñeri, Inyeri), was an Arawakan language of the Lesser Antilles related to Taíno. It went extinct about 1920, but survives in its daughter language Garifuna.
Despite its name, it was not a Carib language; it was spoken by the Island Caribs due to intermarriage with the native Arawak of the islands.