Ta-Arawakan languages

Ta-Arawakan
Caribbean
Geographic
distribution:
Circum-Caribbean
Linguistic classification: Arawakan
  • Northern
    • (Caribbean)
      • Ta-Arawakan
Subdivisions:
Iñeri
Ta-Arawakan proper
Ethnologue code: 228-16

The Ta-Arawakan languages, aka Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the indigenous languages of the Caribbean Sea parts of northern South America. They are distinguished by the use of ta- rather than common Maipurean / Arawakan na- for the pronoun "I".

Languages

Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:

Aikhenvald adds Shebayo, which Kaufman had left unclassified, and removes Iñeri from Ta-Arawakan proper:

Caribbean Arawakan