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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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  • The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the Indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and...
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    Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean centered on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes, the proposal is called Arawakan...
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    Arawak (redirect from Arawakans)
    the Caribbean group to emphasize their distinct culture and language. The Arawakan languages may have emerged in the Orinoco River valley in present-day...
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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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  • The Upper Amazon Maipurean languages, a.k.a. North Amazonian or Inland Northern Maipuran, are Arawakan languages of the northern Amazon in Colombia, Venezuela...
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    Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast. According to the Language Law of 2003...
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  • minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It is a member of the Arawakan language...
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    cognates between Puquina and the Arawakan languages, proposing that this language family belongs to the putative Macro-Arawakan stock along with the Candoshi...
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    toponyms, suggest they were not Arawakan or Cariban, the families of the attested languages of the Antilles. Three languages are recorded: Guanahatabey, Macoris...
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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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    Guajiboan, Arawakan, Cariban, Barbacoan, and Saliban language families. There are currently about 850,000 speakers of native languages, however its...
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  • Campa (Kampa) or Campan (Kampan) languages, a.k.a. Pre-Andine Maipurean / Arawakan, are closely related Arawakan languages of the Peruvian Amazon. The Glottolog...
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  • Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it with the Ta-Arawakan (Caribbean Arawakan) languages. Aĭkhenvalʹd, A.Iu. (2002). Language Contact in Amazonia. Oxford University...
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  • 'Moho') is any of the Arawakan languages spoken by the Moxo people of the Llanos de Moxos in northeastern Bolivia. The two extant languages of the Moxo people...
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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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    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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    Amerindian languages are also spoken by a minority of the population. These include Cariban languages such as Macushi, Akawaio and Wai-Wai; and Arawakan languages...
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    other important languages in Argentina with 200,000 speakers and 65,000 speakers respectively. Fifteen Indigenous American languages currently exist and...
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    suggest may be Waroid: (Cf. a similar list at Guanahatabey language.) Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles García Bidó, Rafael (2010). Voces...
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  • languages; Aikhenvald, dialects of a single languages. (Marawá is not the same language as Marawán.) Baré is a generic name for a number of Arawakan languages...
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  • The Pauna language, Paunaka, is an Arawakan language in South America. It is an extremely endangered language, which belongs to the southern branch of...
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  • Cawishana (Kawishana, Kaishana) is an Arawakan language, presumably extinct, of Brazil. A few speakers were reported in the 1950s, and today only one...
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  • other southern Arawakan languages. /w, ʃ, n, l/ may often be heard as [v, tʃ, ɲ, ʎ]. [ɨ] is heard as an allophone of /i/. Terena Sign Language Terena at Ethnologue...
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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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    mountainous." This makes it unlikely that the language is Arawakan or Cariban,[or Warao?] as languages of those families have simple V and CV syllable...
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    The languages of the Caribbean reflect the region's diverse history and culture. There are six official languages spoken in the Caribbean: Spanish (official...
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  • and Yaruro language families due to contact. Lozano (2014:212) has also noted similarities between the Saliba-Hodi and Arawakan languages.: 330–331  Zamponi...
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    Wayuu people (category Articles with Spanish-language sources (es))
    northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Arawakan language family. The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling...
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    Asháninka (also known as Campa, although this name is derogatory) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Asháninka people of Peru and Acre, Brazil. It is largely...
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