Carijona language

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Carijona
Hianacoto
Tsahá
Native toColombia
Ethnicity290 Carijona (2007)[1]
Native speakers
15 (2015)[2]
Cariban
Dialects
  • Hianacoto
  • Karihona
  • Umaua
  • Guaque
Language codes
ISO 639-3cbd
Glottologcari1279
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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 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]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Alveolar Post-
alveolar
Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless t k
voiced b d ɡ
Affricate voiceless
voiced
Nasal m n ɲ
Fricative s w h
Tap ɾ

Vowels

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Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid e ə o
Open a

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References

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  1. ^ Carijona language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Guerrero-Beltran 2019, p. 1.
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  4. ^ Guerrero-Beltran 2019, p. 41.

Further reading

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