Shiriana (Xiriâna, Chiriana), or Bahuana (Bahwana), is an unclassified Upper Amazon
Arawakan language once spoken by the
Shiriana people of
Roraima,
Brazil
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. It had an
active–stative syntax.
[Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., ''The Amazonian Languages'', 1999.]
Dialects
Dialects listed by
Mason (1950):
*Waharibo (Guaharibo)
**Shirianá
***Waicá (Guaica, Vaica)
*Carimé (Karimé)
References
Arawakan languages
Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia
Languages of Brazil
Extinct languages of South America
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