Hixkaryana /ˌhɪʃkærˈjɑːnə/ is one of the Carib languages spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá River a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. It may have been the first language to be described as having an object–verb–subject word order (by linguist Desmond C. Derbyshire) though determining this is difficult.
ISO 639-3 code
hix
family
Cariban languages
spoken in
Brazil, Nhamundá River, Amazonas (Brazilian state)
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