Carijona language

Carijona
Hianacoto
Native to Colombia
Ethnicity 290 Carijona (2007)[1]
Native speakers
6 near La Pedrera and "a few more" near Miraflores  (2007)[1]
Cariban
  • Guianan Carib

    • Taranoan
      • Carijona
Dialects
Hianacoto
Karihona
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cbd
Glottolog cari1279[2]

Carijona (Karihona) is a Cariban language, or probably a pair of languages, of Colombia. Derbyshire (1999) lists the varieties Hianacoto-Umaua and Carijona proper as separate languages.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Carijona at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Carijona". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.