Carijona language

E772722

The Carijona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Carijona people of Colombia, now highly endangered with only a small number of elderly speakers remaining.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Carijona language canonical 1
Karihona (Carijona) language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language
indigenous language
language
belongsToMacroArea South America
continent South America
country Colombia
endangermentStatus highly endangered
geneticClassification Cariban > Guianan Carib branch
hasAlternativeName Carijona
Hianacoto
Karihona
hasEthnicPopulation Carijona people
hasGlottocode cari1279
hasGlottologName Carijona
hasMorphologyType suffixing
hasSpeakerCommunity Carijona indigenous communities
hasWordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb) (tendency)
isMinorityLanguageIn Colombia
ISO639-3Code cbd
languageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
numberOfSpeakers very few
region Amazonas Department, Colombia
Caquetá River region
riskOfExtinction severe
spokenBy Carijona people
spokenByAgeGroup primarily elderly speakers
spokenIn Colombia
status moribund
typologicalClassification agglutinative language
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yukpa language closelyRelatedTo Carijona language
Guianan Carib hasSubgroup Karihona (Carijona) language
linked to: Carijona language