Carijona language

Carijona
Hianacoto
Tsahá
Native toColombia
Ethnicity290 Carijona (2007)
Native speakers
15 (2015)
Cariban
Dialects
  • Hianacoto
  • Karihona
  • Umaua
  • Guaque
Language codes
ISO 639-3cbd
Glottologcari1279
ELPCarijona
Carijona is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Carijona (Karihona) is a moribund Cariban language, or a pair of languages, of Colombia. It is spoken by only 15 people as of 2015. Derbyshire (1999) lists the varieties Hianacoto-Umaua and Carijona proper as separate languages.