Carijona language
{{Short description|Endangered Cariban language spoken in Colombia}}
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{{Infobox language
| name = Carijona
| altname = Hianacoto
| nativename = {{Lang|cbd|Tsahá}}
| states = Colombia
| region =
| ethnicity = 290 Carijona (2007)
| speakers = 6 near La Pedrera and "a few more" near Miraflores
| date = 2007
| ref = e18
| familycolor = cariban
| fam1 = Cariban
| fam2 = Guianan Carib
| fam3 = Taranoan
| iso3 = cbd
| glotto = cari1279
| glottorefname = Carijona
| dia1 = Hianacoto
| dia2 = Karihona
| map = Carijona.png
| map2 = Lang Status 20-CR.svg
| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Carijona is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}
}}
Carijona (Karihona) is a Cariban language, or probably a pair of languages, of Colombia. Derbyshire (1999) lists the varieties Hianacoto-Umaua and Carijona proper as separate languages.
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Franco |first=Roberto |title=Los carijonas de Chiribiquete |publisher=Fundación Puerto Rastrojo |year=2002 |isbn=978-958-33-4458-9 |edition=1st |location=Bogotá |lang=es}}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Guerrero-Beltran |first=David Felipe |title=The Grammar of Space in Karijona, a Cariban language from Northwest Amazonia |degree=MA |publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia |url=https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/75983 |year=2019 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |lang=en}}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Guerrero-Beltran |first=David Felipe |title=Estructura de la oración simple en Karijona: lengua indígena de la Amazonía colombiana |degree=BA |publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353609379 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.10726.14401 |year=2016 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |lang=es}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Guerrero-Beltran |first1=David Felipe |last2=Wojtylak |first2=Katarzyna I. |year=2022 |title=Through space, relations, and thoughts: The system of postpositions in Karijona (Cariban, Amazonia) |journal=Studies in Language |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=559–593|doi=10.1075/sl.20050.gue }}
- {{Cite book |last=Robayo |first=Camilo |title=Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva |publisher=ICC |year=2000 |isbn=9789586110839 |editor-last=González de Pérez |editor-first=María Stella |location=Santafé de Bogotá |pages=171–180 |chapter=Avance sobre morfología carijona |editor-last2=Montes Rodríguez |editor-first2=María Emilia}}
- {{Cite book |last=Robayo |first=Camilo |title=Lenguas amerindias: condiciones sociolingüísticas en Colombia |publisher=Instituto Colombiano Antropología |year=1997 |editor-last=Pachón |editor-first=X. |location=Santafé de Bogotá |pages=541–585 |chapter=Babel de nuevo erigida: el caso de la lengua Carijona |oclc=42771230 |editor-last2=Correa |editor-first2=F.}}
- {{Cite book |last=Schindler |first=Helmut |title=Die Karihona: eine Caribgruppe Nordwest-Amazoniens |publisher=Herbert Utz Verlag |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-8316-4715-6 |series=Ethnologie |location=München |oclc=on1107870042}}
{{Languages of Colombia}}
{{Cariban languages}}
Category:Languages of Colombia
Category:Endangered Indigenous languages of the Americas
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