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Bahuana language

South American Language Families

Bahuana, also called Ciriana, is an Arawakan language most closely related to Manao and Kariai, once spoken by the Shiriana and Bahuana peoples of Roraima, Brazil, and marked by an active-stative syntax. Its last speaker, Claudina de Souza Soares, died around 2000.

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