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Carijona (Karihona) is a moribund Cariban language, or a pair of languages, of Colombia. It is spoken by only 15 people as of 2015.[2] Derbyshire (1999) lists the varieties Hianacoto-Umaua and Carijona proper as separate languages.[3]
^Derbyshire, Desmond (1999). "Carib". In Dixon, R. M. W. (ed.). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 23–64. ISBN978-0-521-57021-3.
Guerrero-Beltran, David Felipe; Wojtylak, Katarzyna I. (2022). "Through space, relations, and thoughts: The system of postpositions in Karijona (Cariban, Amazonia)". Studies in Language. 46 (3): 559–593. doi:10.1075/sl.20050.gue.
Robayo, Camilo (2000). "Avance sobre morfología carijona". In González de Pérez, María Stella; Montes Rodríguez, María Emilia (eds.). Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva. Santafé de Bogotá: ICC. pp. 171–180. ISBN9789586110839.
Robayo, Camilo (1997). "Babel de nuevo erigida: el caso de la lengua Carijona". In Pachón, X.; Correa, F. (eds.). Lenguas amerindias: condiciones sociolingüísticas en Colombia. Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano Antropología. pp. 541–585. OCLC42771230.
Schindler, Helmut (2018). Die Karihona: eine Caribgruppe Nordwest-Amazoniens. Ethnologie. München: Herbert Utz Verlag. ISBN978-3-8316-4715-6. OCLC1107870042.
