Ta-Arawakan languages
The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and South America. They are distinguished by the first person pronominal prefix ta-, as opposed to common Arawakan na-.
| Ta-Arawakan | |
|---|---|
| Caribbean | |
| Geographic distribution | Caribbean and Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast) |
| Linguistic classification | Arawakan
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | cari1281[1] |
Languages
Kaufman (1994) provides the following subclassification:
- Taíno
- Guajiro (Wahiro)
- Iñeri (Inyeri)
- Kalhíphona (Island Carib, modern Garífuna or Black Carib)
Aikhenvald adds Shebayo, which Kaufman had left unclassified, and removes Iñeri from Ta-Arawakan proper:
Caribbean Arawakan
Proto-language
A reconstruction of Proto-Lokono-Guajiro has been proposed by Captain (1991).[2]
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Caribbean Arawakan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Captain, D. (1991 [2005]). Proto-Lokono-Guajiro. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos, 10:137-172.
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