Ta-Arawakan languages

Ta-Arawakan
Caribbean
Geographic
distribution
Caribbean and Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast)
Linguistic classification

Arawakan

  • Northern
    • (Caribbean)
      • Ta-Arawakan
Subdivisions
  • Iñeri
  • Ta-Arawakan proper
Glottolog cari1281[1]

The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as 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

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Caribbean". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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