Rouse suggests that Arawakan and Cariban are more useful designations for these linguistic stocks. |
In the languages of this region there are to be detected perhaps a few loan-words from Arawakan or Cariban dialects. |
In the east also there are evidences of the influence of Arawakan culture from the West Indies. |
The Garifuna language belongs to the Arawakan language family, but has a large number of loanwords from Carib languages and from English. |
It's one of the Arawakan languages, indigenous to parts of South America and the Caribbean, and developed among descendents of African slaves. |
Many Arawakan languages are now extinct, but a few survive in the former heartland region of the Amazon-Orinoco. |