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	Arawakan languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Arawakan languages are an indigenous (additional info and facts about language family) language family of (A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama) South America and the
		The languages called Arawakan or Maipuran were originally recognized as a separate group in the late (additional info and facts about nineteenth century) nineteenth century.
		The language spoken by the woman belonged to the Arawakan language family, but was not closely related to the Taíno language or to the Arawak language proper.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/arawakan_languages.htm (700 words)

	Arawakan languages - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Arawakan languages are spoken over a large swath of territory, from the eastern slopes of the central Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia, across the Amazon basin of Brazil,
		Its closest relative among the better attested Arawakan languages seems to be the Goajiro language spoken in Colombia.
		The language spoken by the woman belonged to the Arawakan language family, but was not closely related to the Taino language or to the Arawak language proper.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /arawakan_languages.htm (570 words)

	Arawakan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The languages called Arawakan or Maipuran were originally recognized as a separate group in the late nineteenth century.
		The Arawakan languages are spoken over a large swath of territory, from the eastern slopes of the central Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia, across the Amazon basin of Brazil, southward into Paraguay and northward into to Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia on the northern coast of South America.
		The language spoken by the men was a language of the Carib family very similar to the Galibi language spoken in what later became French Guyana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arawak_Indians (630 words)

	AllRefer.com - Native American languages : Languages of South America and the West Indies (Language And Linguistics) - ...
		The Arawakan and TupI-GuaranI families belong to the Equatorial branch of the Andean-Equatorial languages.
		Arawakan is considered the most extensive South American linguistic stock.
		In the aboriginal period (before 1500), Arawakan tongues were spoken in the West Indies and S Brazil and along the eastern side of the Andes.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NatvAmlang-languages-of-south-america-and-the-west-indies.html (626 words)

	Native American languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The principal linguistic groups of South America and the West Indies are usually said to be eight: Chibchan, Cariban, Gê, Quechua, Aymara, Araucanian, Arawakan, and Tupí-Guaraní.
		The Arawakan and Tupí-Guaraní families belong to the Equatorial branch of the Andean-Equatorial languages.
		The Tupí-Guaraní family of languages is next to the Arawakan in geographical extent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/na/NatvAmlang.html (3048 words)

	Fernando Santos Granero
		One of the most important and contentious issues that arose from the discussion was whether there was something that could be considered to be uniquely Arawakan and that would justify furthering Arawakan comparative studies.
		After all papers were presented and discussed we had a second plenary session in which the organizers presented for consideration the three topics that they considered had incited greatest discussion and required more attention.
		The statement’s main conclusion is that in spite of the marked variability in cultural profile and social structure found among present-day Arawakan groups, there is something –whether we call it ethos, substratum, mentalité, schema- that seems to be characteristically Arawakan.
	striweb.si.edu /santosgranero/research/language_culture_history.html (562 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (As) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Asheninca Pajonal is an Arawakan language spoken in Peru.
		Asheninca Perene is an Arawakan language spoken in Peru.
		Asheninca Ucayali-Yurua is an Arawakan language spoken in Peru and Brazil.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WAI.HTM (321 words)

	Arawakan languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Before the Spanish conquest, Arawakan languages were spoken in a number of disconnected areas from what is now Cuba and the Bahamas southward to the present Gran Chaco and the sources of the Xingu River in southern Brazil, and from the mouth of the Amazon River to the eastern foothills of the Andes.
		Arawakan languages formerly extended from the peninsula of Florida in North America to the present-day Paraguay–Argentina border, and from the foothills of the Andes eastward to the Atlantic Ocean.
		(Arawakan was a major South American Indian language group.) The Caribs were well known for their practice of cannibalism.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009220?tocId=9009220 (779 words)

	Granero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Through these rituals, in which self, space, and time become fused, the connection between people and place is made visible, renewed, and celebrated.
		Migrating Arawakan groups recreated a sense of place in the new territories they occupied through the replication of space-structuring notions, toponymies, emplaced myths, and landscape ritual practices.
		Far from being congealed in time, Arawakan sacred landscapes are cultural processes and, as such, are continually under construction.
	www.doaks.org /LA02Program/LA02Granero.html (382 words)

	Edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero / Comparative Arawakan Histories
		This penetrating study is the first to synthesize the writings of ethnologists, historians, and anthropologists concerned with contemporary Arawakan cultures in South America and the adjacent Caribbean basin.
		Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas.
		Comparative Arawakan Histories examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f02/hill.html (264 words)

	Arawakan Languages Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.folkartmuseum.com /encyclopedia/Arawakan_languages (793 words)

	Arawakan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Arawakan languages are spoken over a swath of territory from the eastern slopes the central Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia across the Amazon basin of Brazil to Surinam Guyana Venezuela and Colombia on the northern coast of South
		Garífuna which is thought to have about 000 speakers is spoken on the north of Honduras by the descendants of Caribs brought Saint Vincent in 1796.
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	www.freeglossary.com /Arawakan_languages (274 words)

	Encyclopedia: Arawakan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Jump to: navigation, search Carib or Island Carib is the name of a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named; their name for themselves was Kalinago for men and Kallipuna for women.
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arawakan-languages (1252 words)

	SILEBR 2005/003 — Review of “Language Contact in Amazonia” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tucano, the lingua franca of the area, and Tariana, a highly endangered Arawakan language are discussed in more detail than other languages in the two families.
		283 as an extinct Arawakan language of the Purus and its tributaties.
		Another minor problem, to this reviewer at least, is the use of the term “Arawak” for the language family rather than “Arawakan.” “Arawak” is an alternate name for the Lokono language; it would be better to distinguish the language and language family, as in the case of Tucano and Tucanoan.
	www.sil.org /silebr/2005/silebr2005-003 (1253 words)

	Goajiro Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name of their language is Arawakan (a member of the Arawakan language family).
		Arawakan languages were spoken in a number of distinct and isolated areas ranging from Cuba and the Bahamas, southward to the Xingu River in southern Brazil, and from the mouth of the Amazon River to the eastern foothills of the Andes.
		Many communities still speak Arawakan languages in Brazil, and other Arawakan speakers are found in areas such as Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/southamerica/goajiro.html (360 words)

	Taino - Ethnos - Books about the Taino People
		The Taíno are the seafaring relations of the Arawakan peoples of South America.
		The Taíno culture ceased to exist in the 16th century, wiped out by genocide, introduced disease, and assimilation into the plantation economy that Spain imposed in its Caribbean colonies, with its subsequent importation of African slave workers.
		This group is said to be another Arawakan related people originally from South America.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Taino.htm (375 words)

	Search Results for Arawakan - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Before the Spanish conquest, Arawakan languages were spoken in a number of disconnected areas from what is now Cuba and the Bahamas...
		Numbering about 127,000 in the late 20th century, they speak an Arawakan language and are linguistically and...
		In the late 15th century the indigenous Ciboney and Guanahatabey peoples occupied western Cuba, and the more numerous Taino inhabited the rest of the island.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Arawakan&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (323 words)

	Arawakan - Definition of Arawakan by Webster's Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Arawakan - a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
		Arawakan - a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America
		Arawakan - of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Arawakan (63 words)

	Athena Review Image Archive: Map of Amazonian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Major language families, grouped by colors, include Arawakan (green), Carib (purple), and Tupi-Guarani (blue).
		Arawakan was the largest single family, including the Taino in the Greater Antilles, representing Neo-Indian migrations after AD 200.
		Arawakan (green) includes 74 languages, divided into Aruan, Guahiban, Harakmbet, and Maipuran branches.
	www.athenapub.com /salangmp.htm (167 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: American Indians
		Practically the whole of the West Indies were occupied by tribes of two linguistic stocks, the earlier of the Arawakan origin, the more recent being Cariban invaders from the northern coast of South America.
		The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal".
		Under the awful cruelties of their Spanish conquerors and taskmasters they were virtually exterminated within two generations of the discovery (see Arawaks).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07747a.htm (10210 words)

	OEDILF
		The following limerick is in a "Tentative" state, which means the information contained within has not yet been verified.
		Arawakan refers to the people and/or the language of an Amerindian culture predominantly found in South America.
		The information on this page may not be reproduced in any form without written permission by the.
	www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?VerseId=15489 (103 words)

	Ethnologue: Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources
		On proposing deep genetic relationships in Amazonian languages: The case of Candoshi and Maipuran Arawakan languages.
		Presented at the Symposium on Arawakan Linguistics, Forty-sixth International Congress of Americanists.
		Presented at the Symposium on Arawakan Linguistics, 46th International Congress of Americanists.
	www.ethnologue.com /ethno_docs/bibliography.asp (7065 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2001007537 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Table of contents for Comparative Arawakan histories : rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia / edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero.
		Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative MICHAEL J. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace- Builders of the Bolivian Savanna FRANCE-MARIE RENARD-CASEVITZ 123 6.
		A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion ALBERTA ZUCCHI 199 9.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy036/2001007537.html (210 words)

	arawakan - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Arawakan : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Arawakan, arawakan : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?loc=rescb&w=arawakan (157 words)

	Taino Language
		Taino is an Arawakan language of the Caribbean, originally spoken in what is now Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Bahamas.
		Today there are two languages, the original Taino tongue--which, though not spoken as a first language today, is being taught to Taino children in an active language revival program--and a unique Spanish-Taino creole, spoken by many Taino people, using Spanish grammar but with half of its vocabulary words Taino in origin.
		A nice overview of Taino and other Arawakan and native Caribbean languages.
	www.native-languages.org /taino.htm (288 words)

	Nectar And The Bee - History Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nectar And The Bee, Arawakan: A Linguistic Study
		My investigation has to do with a family of indigenous languages called Arawakan.
		It appears that Arawakan is one of the most widely spoken family of languages spoken in the Americas.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1898 (274 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:CAJ
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Some have equated this name with 'Guana' (Kaskiha) of Paraguay of Mascoian affiliation, or Terena of Brazil of Arawakan affiliation, but they are distinct.
		The language has not been spoken for 300 years.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=CAJ (86 words)

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