Carijona (Karihona) is a
Cariban language
The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to northeastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spoken in small pockets ...
, or probably a pair of languages, of
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. Derbyshire (1999) lists the varieties Hianacoto-Umaua and Carijona proper as separate languages.
References
Languages of Colombia
Cariban languages
Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas
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