Glottolog cari1281 | ||
Geographic
distribution Caribbean and Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast) Linguistic classification Arawakan
Northern
(Caribbean)
Ta-Arawakan Subdivisions Iñeri
Ta-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:
Aikhenvald adds Shebayo, which Kaufman had left unclassified, and removes Iñeri from Ta-Arawakan proper:
Caribbean Arawakan
References
Ta-Arawakan languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA