Appendix:Carib language
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The Carib language, also known as Caribe, Cariña, Galibi, Galibí, Kali'na, Kalihna, Kalinya, Galibi Carib, Maraworno and Marworno, and natively named Kaliña, Cariña, is an Amerindian language spoken in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela by 10226 people (7,000 of whom are from Venezuela). It is a Cariban → Northern Carib → Galibi language written in the Latin alphabet. Its ISO-2 code is "car", ISO-3 is "car", SIL is "CRB".
Alphabet[edit]
The Carib alphabet consists of 15 letters: a, e, i, j, k, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, y, and w. A grave accent is used for a plosive archiphoneme.
Common Carib Words[edit]
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References[edit]
- {{Frenchtrans|Kali'na (langue)|29 December 2007}}
- Galibi (True Carib)
External links[edit]
- Ethnologue entry for Carib language, car ({{linguistlist|code=car}})
- Ka'lina (Carib) Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
- Entry for Carib at Rosetta Project
- Surinamese Carib - English Online Dictionary
- Audio resources from the MPI-PL archive for linguistic resources, which origin from data collected by dr. Berend Hoff in the period 1955-1965
- How to count in Kali’na
w:br:Karibeg w:es:Idioma kariña w:eo:Kariba lingvo w:fr:Kali'na (langue) w:qu:Kariña simi w:ru:Карибский язык