cariban

/K EH1 R IH0 B AE0 N/
adjective
  1. 1

    Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.

  2. 2

    Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).

  3. 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.