Kariaí language

Kariaí
Cariyai
Extinct (date missing)
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist list
qce Kariaí
  qrs Kariay
Glottolog cari1280[1]

Kariaí (Cariyai) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Manao (Middle Rio Negro) branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cariay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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