Hixkaryana language
ONE OF THE CARIB LANGUAGES, SPOKEN BY JUST OVER 500 PEOPLE ON THE NHAMUNDÁ RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON RIVER IN BRAZIL
Hixkaryana; Hixkaryána language; ISO 639:hix; Hishkaryana language; Hixkaryána
Hixkaryana Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh is one of the Cariban languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá River, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. It is one of around a dozen languages that are described as having object–verb–subject word order (initially by linguist Desmond C.