Artifacts have been found around the island, telling of life before European settlers arrived by the Arawak and Carib peoples. |
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Dominica is home to the Carib Territory, one of the last indigenous communities in the Caribbean. |
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The Carib Territory is home to an estimated 3,000 Kalinago or Carib people. |
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The Garifuna language belongs to the Arawakan language family, but has a large number of loanwords from Carib languages and from English. |
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There is a smaller number of Garifuna, a people of mixed West African, Carib and Arawak descent. |
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