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Meaning of "arawakan"
Arawakan (adjective): Relating to a group of indigenous peoples of South America and the Caribbean, or their languages or cultures
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- Of or relating to a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America and migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas.
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Arawakan languages tend to distinguish alienable and inalienable possession.
Ocumo from arawakan.
Taino spoke an Arawakan language and did not have writing.
Wayuu is one of the major Arawakan languages.
The Arawakan languages may have emerged in the OrinocoRiver valley.
Kulina is a member of the Arawakan language family.
They speak a group of languages collectively called Arawakan.
Maco is not a proper name but a label applied by Arawakan speakers for unintelligible languages.
The Moxos language belongs to a language family called Arawakan.
The Arawak spoke an Arawakan language and did not have writing.
Some claim that the word is of Arawakan origin.
The Arawakan languages may have emerged in the Orinoco River valley.
A broader language group is Arawakan languages.
Primarily an Arawakan language, it has influences from Caribbean and European languages.
There is a common misconception is that Amarakaeri is an Arawakan language.
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Taíno is a poorly-attested Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
Their Arawak language is the name of the overall Arawakan language family.
Several modern Arawakan peoples continue the tradition, including the Pareci and Enawene-Nawe of Brazil.
The Tariana language belongs to the Arawakan linguistic family.
Paraujano is an Arawakan language spoken by the Paraujano, or Anu ͂, people of Venezuela.
The Garifuna speak an Arawakan language.
Barawana ( Baré ) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and Brazil, where it is nearly extinct.
It is thought that the Taínos are a relative of the Arawakan people of South America.
Mehináku ( Meinaku ) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people of Brazil.
Their language, the Arawak language, gives its name to the Arawakan language family.
Machiguenga ( Matsigenka ) is a major Arawakan language in the Campa sub-branch of the family.
The Mehinaku speak the Mehináku language, an Arawakan language.
Waurá ( Wauja ) is an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil.
Achagua people speak the Achagua language, a Maipurean Arawakan language.
Category, Arawakan languages.
The word "hammock" is derived from an Arawakan word.
Shebaya (Shebaye, Shebayo) is an extinct Arawakan language of Trinidad and perhaps the Venezuelan coast.
The word " Maroon " comes from the Spanish cimarrón, which was derived from an Arawakan root.
Nomatsiguenga ( Matsigenka ) is an Arawakan language of Peru.
Kariaí (Cariyai) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language.
Cawishana ( Kawishana, Kaishana ) is an Arawakan language, presumably extinct, of Brazil.
The Pauna language, Paunaka, is an almost unknown Arawakan language in South America.
Lapachu, also known as Apolista, is an extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia.
