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- a member of an indigenous South American people living mainly in coastal regions of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela加勒比人(主要生活于法属圭亚那、苏里南、圭亚那、委内瑞拉等地的沿海地区)。
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- mass noun the language of this people, the only member of the Cariban family of languages still spoken by a substantial number of people (around 20,000)加勒比语(加勒比人所用语言, 为加勒比语族中仅存语言, 仍有为数众多的人, 即约20,000人使用)。亦称GALIBI.
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- the Cariban family of languages加勒比语系。
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- (亦作Island Carib)[mass noun] an unrelated Arawakan language, now extinct, formerly spoken in the Lesser Antilles. It became so called because the mainland Caribs were in the process of subjugating the Arawakan peoples of the Lesser Antilles at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, who confused the two groups.
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- of or relating to the Caribs or their language(与)加勒比人(有关)的, (与)加勒比语(有关)的。
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- of or relating to Island Carib or Black Carib(与)加勒比岛语(有关)的, (与)黑加勒比语(有关)的。
词源
from Spanish caribe, from Haitian Creole. Compare with CANNIBAL.