Carib language

Carib
Kaliña, cariña
Spoken in	Venezuela, the Guianas, a few in Brazil
Ethnicity	Kali'na
Native speakers	7,400  (2001)
Language family	Cariban Carib
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	car

Kalina

Carib, also known as Caribe, Cariña, Galibi, Galibí, Kali'na, Kalihna, Kalinya, Galibi Carib, Maraworno and Marworno, is an Amerindian language in the Cariban language family.

Carib is also spoken in Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and French Guyana. In Dominica, the Antillean creole include elements of Carib languages.

Alphabet

The Carib alphabet consists of 17 letters: a, e, i, j, k, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, and y.

Common Carib Words

aina - hand aipajawa - shark akuri - agouti akuru - mud, clay amoro - thou, you a'na - we apo - arm apukuita - oar, paddle areku - anger, war arepa - cassava, cassava bread arukuma - planet, star auto - house aware - opossum awu - I, me ero - this ero po - here awasi - Indian corn iku'po - puddle, pond, lake iromy - dry season iru'pa - good isery - new itoto - enemy, stranger itupu - grass jariku - pelican je'po - bone jopoto - chief jumy - father kampo - smoked meat kanawa - large dugout kapu - sky kari'na - Carib kataru - green turtle katuri - large basket carried on the back kawana - leatherback turtle koko - night konopo - rain kurijara - fishing boat kurita - day maina - garden, field makureru - cactus manare - cassava sieve manaty - breast matapi - cassava press matutu - small table mauru - cotton mity - root moro - that moro po - there mosipe - long mure - small bench napi - sweet potato nono - earth, soil nuno - moon, month okato - large hammock oko - two okoju - snake oma - road, path onu - oeil pa'wu - island oruwa - three oty - name, noise o'win - one pana - ear panare - friend parana - sea paranakyry - Whites, Europeans pe'ja - bay pepeito - wind pi'po - skin, hide ; bark pota - mouth pupu - foot putu - club pyjai - medicine man, shaman pyrywa - arrow, reed sakau - sand sampura - drum sanime - short sano - mother sarompo - leaves semari - cassava grater senke - near sina - flute sipari - ray sipi - fishing net siriko - star, year tamu'ne - white tamusi - old man tamy - tobacco tapire - red, ripe tapusikiri - pebbles tapyi - big meeting house tonoro - bird topu - stone, rock tukusi - colibri tuma - hot sauce tuna - water, river turi - torch turu'po - heart ty'kire - yellow tyse - far u'mari - crown feathers upu'po - head urapa - bow, weapon uwempo - belly waitopo - village wajamaka - iguana waruma - basketry reed wa'to - fire weju - sun werewere - house flies weruno - ash wewe - tree, woods wo'i - savanna, prairie grass woku - cassava beer wokyry - man woryi - woman woto - fish wypy - mountain wywy - axe, hoe y'pori - creek

References

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 29 December 2007 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

• Galibi (True Carib)

External links

• Carib language at Ethnologue
• Carib language at LINGUIST List
• Ka'lina (Carib) Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
• Entry for Carib at Rosetta Project
• Surinamese Carib - English Online Dictionary
• Audio resources from the MPI-PL archive for linguistic resources, which origin from data collected by dr. Berend Hoff in the period 1955-1965
• How to count in Kali’na