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)...

Maipure language of Venezuela, which he used as a basis of his comparisons. It was renamed after the culturally more important Arawak language a century...

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...

have proposed several hypotheses accounting for the prevalence of an Arawak language among the Kalinago. Scholars such as Irving Rouse suggested that Caribs...

Guiana. They speak the Arawak language, the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family, as well as various Creole languages, and English. Historically...

of 16th-century Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Native American languages (Arawak and Taíno), with the second repopulation of the ABC islands with immigrants...

Jirajara spoke an Arawak language, and their cultures showed great similarities. Arawak or Caquetío is referred to as a "ghost language" because no tangible...

authorities as belonging to the Arawak. Their language is considered to have belonged to the Arawak language family, the languages of which were historically...

linguistic work centred on preserving his native Arawak language and other Amerindian languages; he wrote An Arawak-English Dictionary (1989). John Peter Bennett...

The resulting language—Kalhíphona or Island Carib—was Carib in name but largely Arawak in substance. The Carib male conquerors took Arawak women as wives...

may also refer to: Lokono, or Arawak, an indigenous Arawak people of South America Arawak language, or Lokono, the language of the Lokono Taíno, the Arawakan...

principles of the structure of language – Grammatical Sktches: Arawak (pp. 198 ff) Brinton, D. G., (1871). The Arawak Language of Guiana in its Linguistic...

Taíno, a language of the Arawaks as guayabo for guava tree via the Spanish for guayaba. It has been adapted in many European and Asian languages, having...

largest in the West Indies. The original name for the island in the Arawaks' language was Iëre which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus...

Rico) is presented in a separate section. A broader language group is Arawakan languages. The term Arawak (Aruaco) is said to be derived from an insulting...

'hammock' is hangmat. It was borrowed from Spanish hamaca (ultimately from Arawak amàca) and altered by comparison with hangen and mat 'hanging mat'. German...

indigenous South Americans, who speak the Baniwa language belonging to the Maipurean (Arawak) language family. They live in the Amazon Region, in the border...

being the highest point on the island. Jamanota is a word from the Arawak language and can be explained somewhat as follows: JA or YA is spirit; MA is...

cassique (definition) from Taíno cacike or Arawak kassequa "chieftain" Caiman (definition) from a Ta-Maipurean language, "water spirit" (c.f. Garifuna [aɡaiumã])...

the word oofa. caapi (or kahpi/gahpi in Tupi–Guarani language or kaapi in proto-Arawak language), used to address both the brew and the B. caapi itself...

majority of speakers. In the Americas, some of the largest language families include the Quechua, Arawak, and Tupi-Guarani families of South America, the Uto-Aztecan...

Piapoco is a branch of the Arawak language, which also includes Achagua and Tariana. Piapoco is considered a Northern Arawak language. There are only about...

come from aima or eima, meaning river or creek mouth, in Lokono, an Arawak language spoken in the country. The earliest European sources give variants...

Caribbean that flourished from 500 BCE to 545 CE. The Saladoid were an Arawak people. Concentrated along the lowlands of the Orinoco River, the people...

Tucanoan languages. Cubeo has borrowed a number of words from the Nadahup languages, and its grammar has apparently been influenced by Arawak languages. The...

generally loanwords from Carib while those used by women are Arawak. The Garifuna language was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage...

added to the list of endangered or extinct languages—for example, Arawak languages (Shebayo, Igñeri, Lokono, Garifuna of St. Vincent, and the one now...

Christiane (1993). Uma descrição do Baré (Arawak): Aspectos fonológicos e gramaticais [A description of Bare (Arawak): phonological and grammatical aspects]...

currently called by the term Archaic Indians. The Caquetío (Arawak) Indians, a clan of the Arawak language family, arrived at the islands from South America around...

prefix is also reconstructed in Proto-Arawak privative as *ma-. Granadillo (2014) considers Kurripako a VOS language. Gonçalves, Artur Garcia. 2018. Para...