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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)

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

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

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

(Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. All these groups spoke related Arawakan languages. Early

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

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

Island Arawak, due to their connections with the Arawaks of the mainland and because the Taíno language was thought to be part of the Arawak language family

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

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