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What does Arawakan mean?

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  1. (linguistics) Of or relating to a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America and migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas.
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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.

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