Yaio language
LANGUAGE OF SOUTH AMERICA
Yaio; Jaoi language; Yao language (Carib); Yebarana language; Yebarana; Yao language (Trinidad); Jaoi
Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, Anacaioury) is an extinct Cariban language of Trinidad and French Guiana, attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes de Laet. It is thought that the Yao people migrated from the Orinoco to the islands perhaps a century earlier, after the Kaliña.