The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. Specifically, the term "Arawak" has been applied at various...
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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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Arawakan languages (redirect from Arawak languages)
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)
by some authorities as belonging to the Arawak. Their language is considered to have belonged to the Arawak language family, the languages of which were...
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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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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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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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Kalinago language (redirect from Carib Pidgin-Arawak Mixed Language)
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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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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Arawak Cay, also referred to as Fish Fry, is an area of Nassau, Bahamas. It is known for its local eateries on West Bay Street, about 15 minutes from downtown...
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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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Piro languages (redirect from South-Western Arawak)
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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Macro-Arawakan languages (redirect from Macro-Arawak languages)
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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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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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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mythology. Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed...
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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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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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terms Arawak and Caribs to distinguish the peoples of the Caribbean, with Carib reserved for indigenous groups that they considered hostile and Arawak for...
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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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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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6,000 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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'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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the fourth millennium BC by various indigenous peoples, including the Arawaks, Caribs, and Wayana. Europeans arrived and contested the area in the 16th...
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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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to the inhabitants as Indios Curaçaos. Curaçao's history begins with the Arawak and Caquetio Amerindians; the island becoming a Spanish colony after Alonso...
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the Caquetío people lived on Aruba. They belonged to the Arawak people. The origin of Arawak civilization (a name based on a linguistic classification)...
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by men are generally loanwords from Carib while those used by women are Arawak. The Garifuna language was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible...
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