cariban
/K EH1 R IH0 B AE0 N/adjective
- 1
Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
- 2
Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).
- 3
Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.
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