Sikiana

Alternate Names:       Sikiâna, Shikiana, Sikïiyana, Chiquiana, Chikena, Chiquena, Xikujana, Xikiyana.

Classifications:   Carib, Northern, East-West Guiana, Waiwai, Sikiana

Comments:        Nearly extinct.

Dialects:            Close to Salumá.

Population:        33 in Brazil (1986 SIL). Population total all countries: 48.


Region:
             Northwest Pará, between the Rio Cafuini and the headwaters of the Turuna and Itapi, near the Suriname border.

ALSO SPOKEN IN: Suriname, Venezuela.

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