Kalinago language

Kalinago
Igneri
Kalhíphona
Native to	Windward Islands (Guadeloupe to Grenada, except Barbados)
Ethnicity	Kalinago, Igneri
Extinct	1920s in Dominica (survives in Garifuna)
Language family	Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Igñeri Kalinago
Early form	Igneri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	crb
Linguist List	crb
Glottolog	isla1278
Iñeri (Kalinago) among other Pre-Columbian languages of the Antilles

The Kalinago language, also known as Igneri (Iñeri, Inyeri, etc.), was an Arawakan language historically spoken by the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Kalinago proper became extinct by about 1920 due to population decline and colonial period deportations resulting in language death, but an offshoot survives as Garifuna, primarily in Central America.

Despite its name, Kalinago was not closely related to the Carib language of the mainland Caribs. Instead, it appears to have been a development of the Arawakan language spoken by the islands' earlier Igneri inhabitants, which incoming Caribs adopted in the pre-Columbian era. During the French colonial period, Carib men also spoke a Cariban-derived pidgin amongst themselves.