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Shiriana | |
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Bahwana | |
Native to | Brazil |
Extinct | 2000s [1] |
Arawakan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
xir |
Glottolog |
xiri1243 |
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. [2]
Dialects listed by Mason (1950): [3]