Langenesis

Arawakan family

Island Carib

c. 1000 CE – 1920 CE Extinct

Island Carib (c. 1000 CE – 1920 CE) is an extinct Arawakan language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Arawakan → Island Carib.

See Island Carib on the interactive map

Iñeri, the Arawakan language of the Lesser Antilles. Despite its name it is not Cariban, though it had a Carib-derived men's pidgin register. Ancestor of Garifuna.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Arawakanc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  2. Island Caribc. 1000 CE – 1920 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Arawakan.

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