Arawakan

Related to Arawakan: Arawak, Arawak Indians, Arawakan language

Ar·a·wa·kan

(ăr′ə-wä′kən, -wăk′ən)

n. pl. Arawakan or Ar·a·wa·kans

1. A member of a widespread group of Indian peoples living in an area of South America that includes parts of Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, the Amazon basin of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and formerly most of the Greater Antilles.

2. A large language family of South and Central America, including Taíno, many other living and extinct languages of South America spoken by Arawakan peoples, and Garifuna.

Ar′a·wa′kan adj.

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Arawakan

(ˌærəˈwækən)

(Languages) a family of American Indian languages found throughout NE South America

adj

(Peoples) of or relating to the peoples speaking these languages

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Ar•a•wak•an

(ˌær əˈwɑ kən, -ˈwæk ən)

n.

1. a family of American Indian languages spoken or formerly spoken in widely scattered areas of tropical lowland South America, from N Colombia to Bolivia, and formerly spoken in the Antilles and the Bahamas.

adj.

2. of or pertaining to Arawakan or its speakers.

3. of or pertaining to the Arawaks.

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Noun	1.	Arawakan - a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America Arawak Amerindian, Native American - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
	2.	Arawakan - a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America Arawak American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Adj.	1.	Arawakan - of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak

Translations

aruaque

References in periodicals archive ?

Oliver J (1989) The Archaeological, Linguistic and Ethnohistorical Evidence for the Expansion of Arawakan into Northwestern Venezuela and Northeastern Colombia.

CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MEDANOS DE CORO NATIONAL PARK (PNMC), VENEZUELA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CAQUETIO OCCUPATION PATTERNS/CONTRIBUCION A LA ARQUEOLOGIA DEL PARQUE NACIONAL MEDANOS DE CORO (PNMC), VENEZUELA: IMPLICACIONES PARA LOS PATRONES DE OCUPACION CAQUETIA...

The editors provide a scholarly introduction to the Arawakan and Cariban peoples the Europeans encountered, as the two unequal parties engaged in a century-long process of feeling each other out, before the Europeans finally arrived in force during the mid-seventeenth century, changing this part of the world forever.

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Her dissertation was a monumental grammar of the Arawakan language Asheninka Perene, published in 2015 by Mouton de Gruyter.

Interview with Edith Moravcsik

The same is true for the presence of suffixed incorporated classifiers in Arawakan, represented by Baure and Trinitario in the sample (see e.g.

Verbal Synthesis in the Guapore-Mamore Linguistic Area: a Contact Feature?

Arawakan languages continued to spread southward along the Purus and Madeira rivers to the lowlands of Peru and Bolivia where Arawak-speaking groups with their characteristic cultural emphasis on river navigation, trade and agriculture established themselves as middlemen in the trade between the lowlands and the Andean highlands.

All useful plants have not only identities, but stories: the mythical origins of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) according to the Peruvian Ashaninka

These groups have been classified (2) into five linguistic families: Tukanoan (represented by the Eastern Tukanoan subfamily), Guahiban, Arawakan, KakuaNukak and Cariban.

Analisis de la diversidad y la estructura genetica de tres poblaciones indigenas amazonicas colombianas

(2) Typologically, evidentiality is often left unmarked in conditional clauses; see Aikhenvald (2004 : 255-256,) on Tariana (Arawakan) and LaPolla (2003 : 74-75) on Qiang (Tibeto-Burman).

Evidentiality in Livonian

The first of these, the Arawakan people who have become known as the Taino, lived on the island when Columbus arrived in 1494 (Woodley).