Shiriana language

{{Short description|Extinct Arawakan language of Brazil}}

{{distinguish|Yanam language}}

{{Expand Portuguese|Língua shiriana|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Shiriana

| nativename = {{lang|xir|Bahwana}}

| states = Brazil

| extinct = 2000s

| ref = e25

| familycolor = arawakan

| fam1 = Arawakan

| fam2 = Northern

| fam3 = Upper Amazonian

| fam4 = Manao?

| iso3 = xir

| glotto = xiri1243

| glottorefname = Xiriâna

| altname = Chiriana, Xiriâna

| dia1 = Waharibo

| dia2 = Carimé

| ethnicity = Shiriana people

}}

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.Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.