Caribann.adj.

1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. xiii. 362 Thus Siouan, Nahuatlan, Cariban, Guaranian are the collective names of families, of which Dakota, Aztec, Macusi and Tupi are respective sub-groups or branches.

1913 Amer. Anthropologist 15 245 By reason of the large number of small stocks within the area now or formerly occupied by others, the real extent of such stocks as Chibchan, Betoyan, Cariban, Arawakan,..Panoan, etc., does not exactly appear as at the point of greatest expansion.

2007 Lat. Amer. Antiq. 18 259/1 The Arawakan and Cariban speaking people of the Guianas today express identity and various aspects of the relationships among kinship groups through symbols and designs on pottery, stone, and perishables like baskets and calabash.

1911 Science 31 Mar. 501 As a result of his sojourns in northwestern Brazil, [he] has shown the Makuan to be an independent stock, and added much to the linguistic material in print and in manuscripts concerning the Arawakan, Cariban, Betoyan, Miranhan and Uitotan stocks.

1950 J. A. Mason in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 232 The Cariban affinities of Motilón..have always been accepted.

2012 F. Rose in M. Vanhove et al. Morphologies in Contact 63 In Cariban languages, the frequency of the collective particle *komo is obviously restricted due to its allomorphic distribution.