Carib Group

• Carib/Kalina (Venezuela, Guianas, and Suriname)
• Galibí do Oiapoque

Guiana Branch

• Kaxuyána
• Hixkaryána
• Tiriyó (also called Trio)
• Waiwái

North Amazonia Branch

• Atroarí-Waimirí
• Ingarikó
• Makuxí

Central Branch

• Apalaí
• Wayána.

South Amazonia Branch

• Arára do Pará
• Ikpeng
• Kalapálo
• Kuikuro
• Kurâ-Bakairí
• Matipú
• Nahukwá

Panare Group

Mapoyo Group

• Mapoyo (Venezuela)

Yukpa Group

• Yukpa (Venezuela, ?)
• Japreria (Venezuela)

Bibliography

Some comparative works done at this level by members of SIL associated with Brazil:

Derbyshire, Desmond, 1961, Notas comparativas sobre três dialetos Karibe. Boletim do Museu Emílio Goeldi. Antropologica 14:1-10.

———, 1991, Are Cariban languages moving away from or towards ergative systems? Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota 35:1-29.

———, 1994, Clause subordination and nominalization in Tupí-Guaraní and Cariban languages. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos. Vol. VIII.: Lingüística Tupi-Guarani/Caribe. Ignacio Prado, editor & director. Lima, Peru. Pp. 179-198.

Gudchinsky, Sarah C., 1973, Sistemas contrastivos de marcadores de pessoa em duas línguas Carib: Apalaí and Hixkaryána. Série Linguística 1:57-62.