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Yaio

Yaio was a Cariban language once spoken in Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago.

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Yaio · 10.1°N 61.8°W

Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, Anacaioury) was a Cariban language that was spoken in Trinidad and French Guiana up until its extinction in the 17th century. The language was attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes de Laet. It is thought that the Yao people migrated from the Orinoco to the islands perhaps a century earlier, after the Kaliña. The name Anacaioury is that of a number of chiefs encountered over a century or so.

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