Shiriana language

Not to be confused with Yanam language.

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]

Shiriana
Bahwana
Native to	Brazil
Extinct	2000s[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazonian Manao? Shiriana
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xir
Glottolog	xiri1243

Dialects

Dialects listed by Mason (1950):^[3]

• Waharibo (Guaharibo)
  • Shirianá
    • Waicá (Guaica, Vaica)
• Carimé (Karimé)

References

1. Shiriana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
3. Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.