Shiriana language

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]

Shiriana
Bahwana
Native toBrazil
Extinct(date missing)[1]
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Upper Amazonian
      • Manao?
        • Shiriana
Language codes
ISO 639-3xir
Glottologxiri1243[2]

Dialects

Dialects listed by Mason (1950):[4]

  • Waharibo (Guaharibo)
    • Shirianá
      • Waicá (Guaica, Vaica)
  • Carimé (Karimé)
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References
  1. Shiriana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Xiriâna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
  4. Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.


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