• The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the Indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and South...
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    Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language...
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  • extinct Arawakan language of Trinidad and perhaps the Venezuelan coast. It is only attested by a few words. Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it with the Ta-Arawakan...
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    extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean. At the time of Spanish contact, it was the most common language throughout...
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    taught to speak the official languages of their countries. The Lokono language is part of the larger Arawakan language family spoken by indigenous people...
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    The Kalinago language, also known as Igneri (Iñeri, Inyeri, etc.), was an Arawakan language historically spoken by the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles...
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    Linguistic diffusion among Jê, Tupian, Cariban, Arawakan, and Trumai languages is also evident among the languages of the Xingu Indigenous Park. Comparison of...
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    Karu, one of several languages called Baniwa (Baniva), or in older sources Itayaine (Iyaine), is an Arawakan language spoken in Guainía, Colombia, Venezuela...
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  • of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish...
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    pejorative, being derived from an Arawakan word meaning "without speech". Nadahup is an acronym of the constituent languages. The Nadahup family should not...
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  • Wapishana (Wapixana) is an Arawakan language of Guyana and Brazil. It is spoken by over 13,000 people on both sides of the Guyana-Brazil border. In Brazil...
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  • languages Huave language Chibchan languages Aymaran languages Quechuan languages Tupi–Guaraní languages Arawakan languages Many Amazonian languages Mapudungun...
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  • Caquetío is an extinct Arawakan language family. The language was spoken along the shores of Lake Maracaibo, in the coastal areas of the Venezuelan state...
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  • Lists of languages List of proposed language families "Glottolog 5.0 -". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2024-06-28. "What are the largest language families...
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    The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from...
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    Bora-Muinane, and Choko language families due to contact. Meléndez-Lozano (2014) has also noted that Guahiban has borrowed from Arawakan languages, especially the...
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  • Northern Arawakan, or Maipuran, language. It is derived from Gaujiro, yet is a distinct language and not a dialect of Gaujiro. The two languages are closely...
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    Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela...
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  • (2011): Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with Arawakan languages due to contact. The following table from Adelaar (2000) lists lexical...
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  • Mawayana (Mahuayana), also known as Mapidian (Maopidyán), is a moribund Arawakan language of northern South America. It used to be spoken by Mawayana [nl] people...
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  • (Jaulapiti) is an Arawakan language of Brazil. The Agavotaguerra (Agavotoqueng) reportedly spoke the same language. Speakers of the language live in a village...
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  • is an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil. There are approximately 2000 Paresi people, and around 1800 (~90% of the population) speak the language. The...
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    Muskogean languages (Swanton (1929), Crawford (1988), and Broadwell (2015), and with various South American families (including Cariban, Arawakan, Chibchan...
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  • Grammatical mood (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    "Realis/irrealis as a basic grammatical distinction in Southern Arawakan languages". Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique. 38 (38): 97–120. doi:10.4000/rsp...
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    similarities with the Omurano, Arawakan, Quechuan, and Peba-Yagua language families due to contact. Zaparoan languages distinguishes between inclusive...
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    Jolkesky (2016) also notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arawakan languages due to contact. Below is a list of lexical cognates shared between...
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    etc." The indigenous languages were Yao on Trinidad and Karina on Tobago, both Cariban, and Shebaya on Trinidad, which was Arawakan. According to the 2011...
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  • "Some morphological elements of Maipuran Arawakan: Agreement affixes and the genitive construction". Language Sciences. 9 (1): 57–75. doi:10.1016/s0388-0001(87)80009-8...
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    Dominican Spanish (category Languages without Glottolog code)
    southern Spain, and has influences from African languages, Native Taíno and other Arawakan languages. Speakers of Dominican Spanish may also use conservative...
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  • Indigenous peoples in South America by native cultural regions Arawakan peoples Northern Ta-Arawakan Wayuu: Venezuela/Colombia Chibchan peoples Chibcha–Motilon...
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