Shiriana language

Shiriana
	Bahwana
Native to	Brazil
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazonian Manao? Shiriana; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xir
Glottolog	xiri1243[2]

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.[3]

Dialects

Dialects listed by Mason (1950):[4]

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

References

Shiriana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Xiriâna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

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[e18-1] Shiriana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Xiriâna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.

[Mason-1950-4] Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.