Ta-Arawakan languages
| Ta-Arawakan | |
|---|---|
| Caribbean | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Caribbean and Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast) |
| Linguistic classification: |
Arawakan
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| Subdivisions: |
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| Glottolog: | cari1281 |
The Ta-Arawakan languages, a.k.a. 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".
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:
Aikhenvald adds Shebayo, which Kaufman had left unclassified, and removes Iñeri from Ta-Arawakan proper:
Caribbean Arawakan
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