The Cariban languages are an indigenous
language family of
South America. Carib languages are widespread across northern South America, from the mouth of the
Amazon River to the
Colombian Andes and from Maracaibo (
Venezuela) to Central Brazil. Cariban languages are relatively close to each other; in some cases, it is difficult to decide whether different groups speak different languages or dialects of the same language. Because of this, the exact number of Cariban languages is not known with certainty (current estimates range from 25 to 40, with 20 to 30 still spoken). The Cariban family is well known in the linguistic world due to
Hixkaryana, a language with Object-Verb-Subject sentences, previously thought not to exist in human language.
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