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Shiriana language

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Not to be confused with Yanam language.
Shiriana
Bahwana
Native toBrazil
Extinct(date missing)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3xir
Glottologxiri1243

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.[2]

References

  1. ^ Shiriana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.


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