Shiriana language explained

Shiriana language should not be confused with Yanam language.

Shiriana
Nativename:	Bahwana
States:	Brazil
Extinct:	2000s
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Arawakan
Fam2:	Northern
Fam3:	Upper Amazonian
Fam4:	Manao?
Iso3:	xir
Glotto:	xiri1243
Glottorefname:	Xiriâna

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.^[1]

Dialects

Dialects listed by Mason (1950):^[2]

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

Notes and References

1. Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
2. Book: Mason, John Alden . John Alden Mason

   . John Alden Mason . 1950 . The languages of South America . Julian . Steward . Handbook of South American Indians . 6 . 157–317 . Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 . Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.