Cariban
a. 加勒比人的, 加勒比语的
释义与例句
adj.
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1.
Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.
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2.
Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
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3.
Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).
词源
From Carib + -an.
来源:wiktionary