Meaning of "Cariban" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF CARIBAN

Cariban  [ˈkærɪbən]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CARIBAN

Cariban is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CARIBAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cariban languages

The Cariban languages are an indigenous language family of South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, but also appear in central Brazil. Cariban languages are relatively closely related, and number two to three dozen, depending on what is considered a dialect. Most are still spoken, though often by only a few hundred speakers; the only one with more than a few thousand is Macushi, with 30,000. The Cariban family is well known in the linguistic world partly because Hixkaryana has a default object–verb–subject word order, previously thought not to exist in human language. Some years prior to the arrival of the first Spanish explorers, Caribs invaded and occupied the Lesser Antilles, killing, displacing or assimilating the Arawaks who inhabited the islands. The resulting language was Carib in name but largely Arawak in substance. This was due to invading Carib men killing Arawak men and taking Arawak wives, who then passed their language on to the children. For a time, Arawak was spoken by women and children and Carib by adult men, but the situation was unstable.

Definition of Cariban in the English dictionary

The definition of Cariban in the dictionary is of or relating to the group of American Indian peoples. Other definition of Cariban is of or relating to the family of languages spoken by these peoples.

TRANSLATION OF CARIBAN

Find out the translation of Cariban to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Cariban from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cariban» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: Cariban
• Translator English - Spanish: caribe
• English: Cariban
• Translator English - Hindi: Cariban
• Translator English - Arabic: Cariban
• Translator English - Russian: Cariban
• Translator English - Portuguese: Cariban
• Translator English - Bengali: Cariban
• Translator English - French: Cariban
• Translator English - Malay: Cariban
• Translator English - German: Cariban
• Translator English - Japanese: Cariban
• Translator English - Korean: Cariban
• Translator English - Javanese: Cariban
• Translator English - Vietnamese: Cariban
• Translator English - Tamil: Cariban
• Translator English - Marathi: कॅरिबॅन
• Translator English - Turkish: Cariban
• Translator English - Italian: Cariban
• Translator English - Polish: Cariban
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Cariban
• Translator English - Romanian: Cariban
• Translator English - Greek: Cariban
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Cariban
• Translator English - Swedish: Cariban
• Translator English - Norwegian: Cariban

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARIBAN»

Discover the use of Cariban in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cariban and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax

This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages.

Spike Gildea, 1998

A Typological Grammar of Panare: A Cariban Language of Venezuela

A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar, written from a modern functional/typological perspective.

Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne, 2012

A grammar of Trio: a Cariban language of Suriname

This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil.

Eithne Carlin, 2004

Morphologies in Contact

morphological Tupi-Guarani paradigm, it is part of a cross-Cariban series of number particles and third-person plural particles ending in mo (Meira, p.c.). Third, while number marking has little density in Tupi-Guarani languages (cf. section 2.2), ...

Martine Vanhove, Thomas Stolz, Aina Urdze, 2012

Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and ...

On. the. Genesis. of. the. Verb. Phrase. in. Cariban. Languages. Diversity through Reanalysis Spike Gildea Rice University and Museu Paraense Emdio Goeldi 1. Introduction: word order typology and the Cariban family The Cariban language ...

Spike Gildea, 2000

Voice and Inversion

no clear antecedent for *n- '33', it appears at first glance to belong with the same Pre-Proto-Cariban prefix set which gave rise to the direct prefixes. Following this reasoning, Gildea (1992: 85) tentatively proposes a PreProto- Cariban ...

Talmy Givón, 1994

American Indian Languages

The numbers of speakers of most Cariban groups are not known, with the exception of the languages known to be extinct; some population figures, which do not correspond directly to number of speakers, are given by Basso (1977). Extinct ...

Lyle Campbell, 1997

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World

The Cariban family is one of the largest genetic groups in South America, with more than 25 languages (see Figure 1) spoken mostly north of the Amazon, from Colombia to the Guianas and from northern Venezuela to Central Brazil (see ...

‎2010

Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to ...

Word Order Change in the Cariban Family* Spike Gildea Rice University and Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi 1. Introduction: Word Order Typology and the Cariban Family The Cariban language family is well-known in the literature on word ...

Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson, 1997

A Carib Grammar and Dictionary

Franchetto, B. and S. Meira 2005 'The Southern Cariban Languages and the Cariban Family', in IJAL 71 127-190. Fretey, J. 1988 Gildea, S. 1989 Les tortues marines, Cayenne. 'Structural correlates to functional change: a Panare nominalizer ...

Henk Courtz, 2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARIBAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cariban is used in the context of the following news items.

Venezuela's Indigenous Pemon are Caught in Time on Land Too …

The Pemon, who are part of the larger Cariban language family, likely escaped the worst of the Spanish conquest thanks to this hard-to-reach ... «Venezuelanalysis.com, Oct 14»

The Amerindian nations meet the Europeans

All other nations in this country speak various tongues associated with the Cariban family of languages which takes its name from the Caribs ... «Stabroek News, Sep 13»

'Water People' not 'Land of Many Waters'

This finding sums up my thought that the word 'Gua' is related to water, which links to my prior finding, Tuna Yana (Water People in a Cariban ... «Stabroek News, Sep 13»