Carijona language

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Carijona
Hianacoto
Tsahá
Native to Colombia
Ethnicity290 Carijona (2007) [1]
Native speakers
15 (2015) [2]
Cariban
Dialects
  • Hianacoto
  • Karihona
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cbd
Glottolog cari1279
ELP Carijona
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Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Carijona is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Carijona (Karihona) is a moribund Cariban language, or probably a pair of languages, of Colombia. It is spoken by only 15 people as of 2015. [2] Derbyshire (1999) lists the varieties Hianacoto-Umaua and Carijona proper as separate languages. [3]

References

  1. Carijona language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Guerrero-Beltran 2019, p. 1.
  3. Derbyshire, Desmond (1999). "Carib". In Dixon, R. M. W. (ed.). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 23–64. ISBN   978-0-521-57021-3.

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