Shiriana language

Shiriana
Bahwana
Native toBrazil
Extinct2000s[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3xir
Glottologxiri1243

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]

  1. ^ Shiriana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.