Arawak

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• There is no sure way to tell if the Paredao spoke an Arawak language, but the fact that they coexisted with the Manacapur is typical of multiethnic Arawak cultures, which ethnographers have observed living at peace with related tribes and sharing cultural values.

  Academic text (2010)

• MAP: Distribution of the Arawak language group at the time of European contact.

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• Being Arawak didn't always mean speaking an Arawak language.

  Academic text (2010)

• "It was the largest language group that ever existed in the pre-Columbian Americas." Where the original, proto-Arawak language was spoken is unknown, but it may have been in the northwest or possibly the southern Amazon.

  Academic text (2010)

• The Arawak languages are primarily spoken in parts of Brazil and Venezuela.

• Many Arawak words have influenced local dialects throughout the Caribbean.

• Scholars study the Arawak language family to understand its connections to other indigenous languages.

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