单词	Arawakan
释义	Arawakan /ˌarəˈwak(ə)n / adjective Denoting or belonging to a widely scattered family of South American Indian languages, most of which are now extinct or nearly so.Fanning out from Hispaniola (modern-day Haiti/Dominican Republic), Spaniards enslaved Arawakan and Taino-speaking ‘Indians ‘for mining and agricultural enterprises.’... The group is in the Arawakan linguistic family. This Karinya influence comes as a result of interaction between original speakers of an Arawakan language living in the Lesser Antilles and incoming Karina from South America. noun [mass noun] The Arawakan family of languages.Prior to the arrival of the Portuguese, the native population spoke languages belonging to at least four major language families: Arawakan, Gê, Carib, and Tupi-Guarani.... Rouse suggests that Arawakan and Cariban are more useful designations for these linguistic stocks. The Tupí-Guaraní family of languages is next to the Arawakan in geographical extent.
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