cariban

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Definition of cariban

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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.
  2. (not-comparable)Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
  3. (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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