Garifuna
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Kari'na and Garifuna
The language page for Garifuna includes the following:
Related to Island Carib [car], with Spanish [spa], English [eng], and French [fra] borrowings.
Please see my other contribution re Island Carib. I've found since writing that that ISO car is the code for Kari'na (and other spellings), a Carib language. Garifuna is NOT related to the Carib language family. However, it has many Carib loans and probably includes some Carib grammatical influence. I recommend deleting the first phrase of the above sentence and adding something about borrowings from Kari'na [car].
Incidentally, there are a (very) few African loans as well (e.g. anasi "spider", mutu "person"), but it might be misleading to mention these.
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Island Carib
The Garifuna language page includes the following:
"Related to Island Carib [car], with Spanish [spa], English [eng], and French [fra] borrowings"
Douglas Taylor used the alternate name "Central American Island Carib" for Garifuna (his Black Carib). I don't think this or "Island Carib" are currently used (or I have not heard these in either Belize or Los Angeles). (Some older male speakers do call Garifuna "Carib"; I don't know how widespread this is.)
I searched the Ethnologue for Island Carib and found that it was reported as an alternative name for Garifuna. This doesn't seem to square with the quote above. There seems to be no language page for Island Carib. I couldn't find another reference to ISO car.
We will correct and update the Dialects section (Intelligibility Remarks) for Garifuna [cab] in Nicaragua.