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Arawakan languages information


Arawakan
Maipurean
Geographic
distribution
Extant in every country in South America, except for Ecuador, Uruguay and Chile. Formerly spoken in Central America and the Caribbean.
Linguistic classificationMacro-Arawakan ?
  • Arawakan
Proto-languageProto-Arawakan
Subdivisions
  • Northern
  • Southern
ISO 639-5awd
Glottologaraw1281
Maipurean languages in South America (Caribbean and Central America not included): North-Maipurean (pale blue) and South-Maipurean (deeper blue). Spots represent location of extant languages, and shadowed areas show probable earlier locations.

Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Almost all present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, the exceptions being Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock.

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Arawakan languages

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Languages of Colombia

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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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Arawak language

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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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Upper Amazon Arawakan languages

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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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Garifuna language

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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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Languages of Guatemala

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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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Puquina 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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List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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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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Languages of Guyana

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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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Shebaya language

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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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Kalinago language

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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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Languages of Argentina

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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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Macorix language

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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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Campa languages

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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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Kawishana language

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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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Barawana language

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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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Languages of the Caribbean

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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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Guajiboan languages

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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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Languages of North America

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languages (also spoken in Belize and Guatemala), the Mixe–Zoque languages, and the Oto-Manguean languages. In the Caribbean, the Arawakan languages were...

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Moxo languages

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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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Dominican Spanish

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of southern Spain, and has influences from Native Taíno and other Arawakan languages. Speakers of Dominican Spanish may also use conservative words that...

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Karu language

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Karu, one of several languages called Baniwa (Baniva), or in older sources Itayaine (Iyaine), is an Arawakan language spoken in Guainía, Colombia, Venezuela...

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Piro languages

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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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