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Arawakan is a large family of related languages spoken by indigenous peoples across South America, from the Amazon basin to the Caribbean. These languages are important to linguistic science because they help researchers understand how human languages diversify and spread, and they represent the cultural heritage of the indigenous communities that have spoken them for centuries.
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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- South America , Central America , Caribbean
- Linguistic classification
- One of the world's primary language families
- Proto language
- Proto-Arawakan
- Subdivisions
- Northern Southern
- Iso 639 5
- awd
- Glottolog
- araw1281
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Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper, Arawak), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family spoken amongst various Indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Most present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, with the exceptions of Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile.
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