cariban
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of cariban
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- (not-comparable)Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.
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adj
- (not-comparable)Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.
- (not-comparable)Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
- (not-comparable)Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).
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Etymology
From Carib + -an.
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