Definition of cariban:
(adj) :
Of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages.
(adj) :
Of or relating to the Carib people (in all senses, whether linguistically Cariban or Arawakan).
(adj) :
Of or relating to languages of the Cariban family, a family of Amerindian languages spoken in northeastern South America, characterized by small phonemic inventories, split ergativity, broadly left-branching word order (SOV and OVS, with postpositions), portmanteau agreement, and marking of possession on the possessed noun.