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Ta Arawakan languages

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Glottolog
  
cari1281

Geographicdistribution
  
Caribbean and Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast)

Linguistic classification
  
ArawakanNorthern(Caribbean)Ta-Arawakan

Subdivisions
  
IñeriTa-Arawakan proper

The Ta-Arawakan languages, a.k.a. Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the indigenous languages of the Caribbean Sea parts of northern South America. They are distinguished by the use of ta- rather than common Maipurean / Arawakan na- for the pronoun "I".

Languages

Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:

  • Taíno (†)
  • Guajiro a.k.a. Wahiro
  • Wayuu a.k.a. Guajiro, Wahiro
  • Paraujano a.k.a. Parauhano (†)
  • Arawák a.k.a. Lokono
  • Iñeri a.k.a. Inyeri
  • Kalhíphona a.k.a. Island Carib (†)
  • Garífuna a.k.a. Black Carib

    • Aikhenvald adds Shebayo, which Kaufman had left unclassified, and removes Iñeri from Ta-Arawakan proper:

    Caribbean Arawakan

  • Iñeri a.k.a. Inyeri
  • Kalhíphona a.k.a. Island Carib (†)
  • Garífuna a.k.a. Black Carib
  • Ta-Arawakan
  • Taíno
  • Wayuu a.k.a. Guajiro
  • Parauhano a.k.a. Añun (†)
  • Arawák a.k.a. Lokono
  • Shebayo
  • Caquetio

    • References

    Ta-Arawakan languages Wikipedia
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