Shiriana language

Not to be confused with Yanam language.
Shiriana
Bahwana
Native to Brazil
Extinct (date missing)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xir
Glottolog xiri1243[2]

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.[3]

References

  1. Shiriana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Xiriâna". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.


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