Shiriana language
Not to be confused with Yanam language.
| Shiriana | |
|---|---|
| Bahwana | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
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Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xir |
| Glottolog |
xiri1243[2] |
Shiriana (Xiriâna, Chiriana), or Bahuana (Bahwana), is an unclassified Upper Amazon Arawakan language once spoken by the Shiriana people of Roraima, Brazil. It had an active–stative syntax.[3]
References
- ↑ Shiriana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Xiriâna". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
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