Kariaí language
Extinct Arawakan language of Brazil
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Kariaí (Cariyai) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is documented in a wordlist by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in the 1810s.[2]
Classification
Kaufman (1994)[full citation needed] placed it in his Manao (Middle Rio Negro) branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).[full citation needed]