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Kariaí language

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.

Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Manao (Middle Rio Negro) branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).

References