Karchian

Karchian is a Junal language spoken in ? by the Karchiwi

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The name Karchian is an anglicisation of the native term Garitśi Cöjutśi [gɑritɕi t͡ʃɘjʊtɕi] “Garitśi language”, with Garitśi being the ethnonym for the speakers. The ethnonym itself is a loan from the Akchotibian word karǐcii “one who paints one’s face” (ka- “denotes action performed on a face” + riciisak “to paint”), a reference to the facial tattoos of the Karchiwi tribe and also keeping in pattern with other Akchotibian ethnonyms such as the Barchiwi tribe (Barǐcii “one who paints on trees”) and the Lhirchii tribe (ɬirǐcii “one who pains on boulders”).