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    The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different...
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    Arawak (Arowak, Aruák), also known as Lokono (Lokono Dian, literally "people's talk" by its speakers), is an Arawakan language spoken by the Lokono (Arawak)...
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    It was renamed after the culturally more important Arawak language a century later. The term Arawak took over, until its use was extended by North American...
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  • Look up Arawak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Arawak are an indigenous people of South America, and historically of the Caribbean. Arawak may also...
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    Taíno (redirect from Island Arawak)
    Indigenous peoples of the Greater Antilles are sometimes referred to as Island Arawaks. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the...
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  • Arawak Cay, also referred to as Fish Fry, is a 100-acre man-made island in Nassau, The Bahamas. It was built from Nassau Harbour dredging spoils in 1969...
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  • Lokono (redirect from Lokono Arawak)
    The Lokono or Arawak are an Arawak people native to northern coastal areas of South America. Today, approximately 10,000 Lokono live primarily along the...
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  • Arawak Jah is a Cuban-American reggae group based in Orlando, Florida. The group was founded in 1994 by Cuban expatriate Ras Juan Perez (born 8 February...
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  • Conasprella arawak is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. This species occurs...
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  • Emblemariopsis arawak, the Araw glass blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny known from tropical reefs in the Caribbean Sea. This species can reach...
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    scholars have proposed several hypotheses accounting for the prevalence of an Arawak language among the Kalinago. Scholars such as Irving Rouse suggested that...
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  • Arawak FC is a Barthéloméen football club. The club plays in the Saint-Barthelemy Championships, where they finished 2nd during the 2014–15 season. Schöggl...
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    the structure of language – Grammatical Sktches: Arawak (pp. 198 ff) Brinton, D. G., (1871). The Arawak Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological...
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    erasing them from history. The Taíno people were the descendants of the Arawak people who arrived in the Caribbean approximately 4000 years before the...
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    European colonials, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of native Arawak people. The native tribes of the Northern amazon forests are most closely...
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    islands. The island of Trinidad in particular was shared by both Kalinago and Arawak groups. Current evidence suggests there were two major migrations to the...
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    inhabitants were the Guanahatabey people[citation needed]. Eventually, the Arawak migrated from the mainland, followed by the Carib. Prior to European colonization...
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    with the Arawak peoples who already inhabited the islands. The resulting language—Kalhíphona or Island Carib—was Carib in name but largely Arawak in substance...
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    The island was settled by the Arawak arriving from South America in the fifth century. The Kalinago displaced the Arawak by the 15th century. Christopher...
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  • The Igneri were an Indigenous Arawak people of the southern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Historically, it was believed that the Igneri were conquered...
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    several large indigenous ethnic groups (e.g., the Tupis, Guaranis, Gês, and Arawaks). The Tupi people were subdivided into the Tupiniquins and Tupinambás....
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    000 or 7,000 years ago ... The ceramicists, who are related to today's Arawak-speaking peoples, supplanted the earlier foraging inhabitants—presumably...
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  • linguistic work centred on preserving his native Arawak language and other Amerindian languages; he wrote An Arawak-English Dictionary (1989). John Peter Bennett...
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    'bearded'. The island of Antigua was originally called Wadadli by the Arawaks and is locally known by that name today; the Caribs possibly called Barbuda...
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    ultimately displaced or assimilated. The Caquetío belonged to the Arawak people. The origin of Arawak civilization (a name based on a linguistic classification)...
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    at Potters Cay. International shipping is done through the Arawak Port Department on Arawak Cay. High speed excursions to Exuma, Spanish Wells and Harbour...
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  • The Piro languages, a.k.a. Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon. Kaufman (1994)...
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  • appropriate form of Vodoun service. He is similar to the Arawak deity Louquo, a founding ancestor of the Arawak people. He is related to the Iroko and the Ceiba...
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    originally inhabited by indigenous people: Kalina, Lokono (part of the Arawak grouping), Galibi, Palikur, Teko, Wayampi and Wayana. The French attempted...
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    Papiamento (category Articles containing Arawak-language text)
    (WIC) took possession of the islands, deporting most of the small remaining Arawak and Spanish population to the continent (mostly to the Venezuelan west coast...
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