Cariban

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adjective

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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Meanings

adjectiveCariban (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf 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.
  2. not comparableOf or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
  3. not comparableOf or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).

Origin

From Carib + -an.

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Translations

Dutch Caribisch
  • CaribischTranslations

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

arbacin
Cite this entry
APA

Cariban. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cariban

MLA

“Cariban.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cariban. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cariban,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cariban.

Source: Cariban on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.