Cariban

a. 加勒比人的, 加勒比语的

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 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.

  2. 2.

    Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.

  3. 3.

    Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).

词源

From Carib + -an.

来源:wiktionary