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	AMERICAN INDIANS,
		Yakima Indians, and Umatilla in the Sahaptin language family, the Flathead Indians, Spokan, and Okanagon in the Salishan language family, and the
		Because of this migration, historic Inuit culture and language are similar from Alaska to Greenland.
		Carib peoples of the Caribbean islands farmed and fished around their villages; Caribs also lived along the coast of Venezuela.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=200878 (14571 words)

	Cariban languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carib languages are widespread across northern South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes and from Maracaibo ( Venezuela) to Central Brazil.
		Cariban languages are relatively close to each other; in some cases, it is difficult to decide whether different groups speak different languages or dialects of the same language.
		Thus the language is called Island Carib, though it is not part of the Carib linguistic family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carib_language (267 words)

	Carib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Carib people are believed to have left the Orinoco rainforests of Venezuela in South America to settle in the Caribbean.
		Carib resistance delayed the settlement of Dominica by Europeans, and the Carib communities that remained in St. Vincent and Dominica retained a degree of autonomy well into the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carib (718 words)

	carib languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Carib languages are an indigenous language family of South America.
		Carib languages are widespread across northern South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes.
		Island Carib, an extinct language spoken on the Lesser Antilles until the 1920's, is classified as an Arawakan language, as is Garífuna, a language of Honduras also known as Caribe or Black Carib.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /carib_languages.html (167 words)

	Carib [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Carib or Island Carib is the name of a people of the Lesser Antilles The Lesser Antilles are part of the Antilles, which together with the Greater Antilles form the West Indies.
		Carib people are believed to have left the Orinoco With a length of 2140 km, the Orinoco is one of the largest rivers of South America.
		Carib culture looking from the outside seems to be heavily patriarchal A patriarch (from Greek: patria means father; arché means rule, beginning, origin) is a male head of an extended family exercising autocratic authority, or, by extension, a member of the ruling class or government of a society controlled by senior men.
	www.wikimirror.com /Carib (2694 words)

	Encyclopedia: Carib languages
		Southern Carib languages Pemon or Pemong (in Spanish: Pemón) is a Carib language spoken mainly in Venezuela, specifically in the regions Bolivar State, Gran Sabana, an estimated 4,800 people in Venezuela speak Pemon.
		Akawaio is a Carib language spoken mainly in Guyana, most commonly in the region of the Upper Mazaruni.
		Cariban languages Hixkaryana is one of the Carib languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá river, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carib-languages (582 words)

	Language families and languages
		Most languages are known to belong to language families (called simply "families" for the rest of this article).
		Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/language_families_and_languages (534 words)

	Colonization, Globalization, and Language Endangerment
		Overall, these colonial languages were just an addition to local repertoires of languages and constituted little threats to the more indigenous ones, which were protected by the clear division of labor in their functions, with the more indigenous ones functioning as vernaculars and the colonial ones as lingua francas.
		Language shift and language loss are neither new nor recent phenomena, as evidenced by the fact that only 3% of the world’s languages are spoken in Europe (Mayor and BindÈ 2001), which is one of the most densely populated parts of the world.
		Language shift, which is the main cause of language endangerment and death, is part of this adaptive coevolution, as speakers endeavor to meet their day-to-day communicative needs.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufw_colonization.html (11280 words)

	The Ultimate Carib languages - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The Carib family is well known in the linguistic world due to Hixkaryana a language with Object-Verb-Subject sentences, previously thought not to exist in human language.
		The Carib language family may be related to Je and Tupian in a " Je-Tupi-Carib " stock.
		Carib itself is tentatively divided into two to four branches.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Carib_languages (209 words)

	Indigenous Languages of South America
		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.
		Carib languages were spoken mostly north of the Amazon extending as far as the Mato Grosso in Brazil.
		Even languages with relatively large populations of speakers are in danger of disappearing by the end of the 21st century unless governments institute meaningful language preservation programs.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december2005/saIndigenous.html (1369 words)

	Carib languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Carib languages are an indigenous languagefamily of South America.
		Carib languages are widespread acrossnorthern South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes.
		IslandCarib, an extinct language spoken on the Lesser Antilles untilthe 1920's, is classified as an Arawakan language, as is Garífuna, a language of Honduras also known as Caribe or Black Carib.
	www.therfcc.org /carib-languages-86294.html (115 words)

	Athena Review 1,3: South American Languages
		As a result, the Tupi language became the lingua franca of traders, missionaries, and soldiers such as Orellana and Fritz (Omagua), and Staden (Tupinikin and Tupinambá).
		Carib: Divided into two branches, with 21 Northern and 8 Southern Carib languages, most speakers are in the Guianas, Venezuela, and northern Brazil, from where Proto-Carib migrations began ca.
		Panoan: Among 29 Panoan languages in the río Ucayali basin are Conibo, Shipibo, and Setebo, and the Cashibo, Capanawa, and Juruá-Purús branches.
	www.athenapub.com /salang1.htm (2065 words)

	Language Resources: Text Only Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amerindian Languages of Guyana - An overview of the Amerindian languages spoken in Guyana, the number and locations of the speakers of each, and their relationships to overall language families, is presented here by the Summer Institute of Linguistics Ethnologue database.
		Amerindian Languages of Suriname - An overview of the Amerindian languages spoken in Suriname, the number and locations of the speakers of each, and their relationships to overall language families, is presented here by the Summer Institute of Linguistics Ethnologue database.
		Carib and Arawak Word Lists—a brief selection of English translations for a variety of words in the Carib and Arawak language families.
	www.kacike.org /cac-ike/Languages.html (234 words)

	Carib
		Carib is the language of the carib people of the island of Dominica.
		It is one of the two language groups of the island - the other being Arawak.
		Their language is all but extinct and not in common usage.
	www.flw.com /languages/carib.htm (67 words)

	Carib (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Carib or Island Carib are a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named.
		The Island Carib of Saint Vincent were relocated to Honduras in 1796, where their descendants, the Garífuna, live today.
		The Carib were at the time of European discovery aggressively advancing against the Arawakan Taíno, who lived on the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Bahamas.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Carib (469 words)

	SCL Frequently Asked Questions
		These languages are mostly obsolescent, as the majority of their remaining speakers are bilingual and fluent speakers of their country's official and national and vernacular languages.
		Once the language of both kings and peasants, it faced serious status issues in the eleventh century, after the Norman Conquest (it was viewed negatively by the conquerors) and again during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, during the Renaissance (it was viewed negatively by English speakers themselves).
		Languages are, in fact, primarily oral — no one is born with a pen in their hands (or mouths!), just a tongue with which to use his/her mother tongue.
	www.scl-online.net /faq.html (5724 words)

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		Their emphasis on Quechua, the language of the Inca nobility, resulted in the spread of this language, which today has an estimated 7 million speakers, while Puquina became extinct (Klein and Stark 1985).
		Such historic links are established when the development of one or more languages can be tied to a parent tongue by means of tracing non-borrowed innovations backward from the daughter to the parent.
		_Panoan:_ Among 29 Panoan languages in the río Ucayali basin are Conibo, Shipibo, and Setebo, and the Cashibo, Capanawa, and Juruá-Purús branches.
	saturniancosmology.org /files/language/salang1.txt (2121 words)

	Carib Territory - Maciej Swulinski
		This was so because women taken as wives by the Carib speaking men were mostly captured in raids and came from the Arawakan language tribes.
		Today, their language is lost; Caribs have no folklore, no songs or music, no dances or customs, no costume or ornament to distinguish them from other inhabitants of Dominica.
		This is an important location for Carib Indians and according to the legend it was here that the Master Snake came out of the ocean onto the land.
	www.swulinski.com /travels/CaribTerritory.html (287 words)

	Carib : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Carib or Island Carib are a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named.
		The Island Carib of Saint Vincent were relocated to Honduras in 1796, where their descendants, the Garífuna, live today.
		The Carib were at the time of European discovery aggressively advancing against the Arawakan Taíno, who lived on the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Bahamas.
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/Carib.htm (291 words)

	Caribs. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The original name by which the Caribs were known, Galibi, was corrupted by the Spanish to Caníbal and is the origin of the English word cannibal.
		The Carib language was spoken only by the men, while the women spoke Arawak.
		The Caribs were expert navigators, crisscrossing a large portion of the Caribbean in their canoes.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/CaribInd.html (279 words)

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		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.
		One might conclude, though there is a minimum of supporting evidence, that the Carib language was first spoken in eastern Venezuela and that, because the dual language arrangement was unstable and cannot have been very old, the Carib speakers had only recently moved into the lesser Antilles.
		Honduras and in Belize, by the descendants of Caribs and escaped slaves of African descent brought from Saint Vincent to the mainland in
	www.assault-weapons.com /wiki/Arawaks (595 words)

	Carib articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the southern Caribbean they co-existed with a related Carib languagesCariban -speaking group, the Galibi who lived in separate villages in Grenada and Tobago and are believed to have been mainland Caribs.
		The Caribs were themselves displaced by the Europeans, and were eventually all but exterminated during the European colonization of the Americascolonial period.
		Carib culture looking from the outside seems to be heavily Patriarchypatriarchal.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Carib.htm (711 words)

	Galibi (True Carib)
		Galibi is a Cariban language spoken in Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname.
		The language seems very healthy since young children are being raised monolingual in the language.
		The last name is one of the reasons Galibi is known as "true Carib" because the word Caribe (and eventually Carib) is a corruption of the word Galibi.
	www.cariblanguage.org /galibi.html (250 words)

	Arawakan languages - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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, to Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia on the northern coast of South America.
		The Carib, after whom the Caribbean was named, formerly lived throughout the Lesser Antilles.
		The Carib language is now extinct, although Caribs still live on Dominica.
	www.greatestinfo.org /Arawak (165 words)

	Guatemalans
		There are 21 Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala, the principal ones being Quiché, Cakchiquel, Kekchí, and Mam.
		Carib is spoken along the Caribbean coast by the Garifunas, or Black Caribs, the descendants of fugitive slaves and Carib Indians.
		In 1990 it was estimated that the poorer half of the population was receiving only 60% of its daily minimum caloric requirements.
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/centamerica/guatemalans.htm (3028 words)

	Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
		We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
		Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them.
		These are linguistically diverse languages deserving of individual attention, and it is very difficult to make accurate generalizations about them as a group.
	www.native-languages.org /index.htm (1197 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Ge-Pano-Carib & Oto-Manguean
		You have reached the page for the Ge-Pano-Carib and Oto-Manguean language families, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Languages belonging to both the Ge-Pano-Carib and the Oto-Manguean families are included on this page.
		The Ge-Pano-Carib family of languages is one of four language families now generally recognized for Mexico, Central, and South America.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/gpcomfh.htm (1034 words)

	The Origin and Survival of the Taino Language
		It is composed of approximately 45% Arawak, 25% Kaliña (Carib), 15% French, 10% English and 5% Spanish.
		The pronunciation of the aspirated ‘H’ is a common trait in many indigenous languages including Taíno. Also, it is quite likely that the transformation of words ending with the suffix –ado into –ao, which originated in parts of Spain, was adopted by the indigenous population due to its similarity to existing Taíno language structure: e.g.
		There is a Carib reserve on the island of Wáitukubulí, where the Kalínago continue to make canoes (kanoa) in the traditional fashion.
	www.centrelink.org /davidcampos.html (1474 words)

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