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Definition of Cariban in English: Caribanadjective ˈkarɪb(ə)nˈkarəbən Relating to or denoting a family of South American languages scattered widely throughout Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia. With the exception of Carib, they are all extinct or have few speakers. （与）加勒比语族（有关）的（一种曾在巴西、苏里南、圭亚那、委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚广泛使用的南美洲语言，除加勒比语外，同族的所有其他语言已经或近于消亡） Example sentencesExamples - They don't seem to be either Arawakan or Cariban, and they don't seem to be related to Warao either.
- The latter had two aboriginal stocks, Arawakan and Cariban, which are also found in South America.
- Rouse suggests that Arawakan and Cariban are more useful designations for these linguistic stocks.
noun ˈkarɪb(ə)nˈkarəbən mass nounThe Cariban family of languages. 加勒比语族 Example sentencesExamples - This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil.
- I have been working on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas (Cariban and Arawakan) since 1996.
- In the aboriginal period the Cariban languages were important in the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia.
- By comparing negation in kari'ña with that of other languages of the same family, it is clear that it works in a very similar way in the different Cariban languages.
- Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.
- In other analyses of Cariban languages it has been claimed that the oblique (goal-case) marking of the agent of a transitive verb is indicative of ergative syntax.
Definition of Cariban in US English: Caribanadjectiveˈkarəbən Of, belonging to, or denoting a family of South American languages scattered widely throughout Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia. With the exception of Carib, they are all extinct or nearly so. （与）加勒比语族（有关）的（一种曾在巴西、苏里南、圭亚那、委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚广泛使用的南美洲语言，除加勒比语外，同族的所有其他语言已经或近于消亡） Example sentencesExamples - They don't seem to be either Arawakan or Cariban, and they don't seem to be related to Warao either.
- The latter had two aboriginal stocks, Arawakan and Cariban, which are also found in South America.
- Rouse suggests that Arawakan and Cariban are more useful designations for these linguistic stocks.
nounˈkarəbən The Cariban family of languages. 加勒比语族 Example sentencesExamples - In the aboriginal period the Cariban languages were important in the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia.
- This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil.
- By comparing negation in kari'ña with that of other languages of the same family, it is clear that it works in a very similar way in the different Cariban languages.
- Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.
- In other analyses of Cariban languages it has been claimed that the oblique (goal-case) marking of the agent of a transitive verb is indicative of ergative syntax.
- I have been working on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas (Cariban and Arawakan) since 1996.
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