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Definition of Arawakan in English:
Arawakan
adjective
1Relating to the Arawak people.
‘Other Arawakan peoples on the South American mainland were also matrilineal, from Surinam to eastern Peru.’- ‘Many Arawakan languages are now extinct, but a few survive in the former heartland region of the Amazon-Orinoco.’
- ‘Columbus had called the Northern Islanders, Taíno, from the Arawakan word for ‘friendly people’ as contrasted by the hostile Carib.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Far from being congealed in time, Arawakan sacred landscapes are cultural processes and, as such, are continually under construction.’
2Denoting or belonging to a widely scattered family of languages spoken by the Arawak, 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.’
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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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