The words mean hammock, hurricane and peanut butter. They are part of the Arawak language spoken by Tainos and later incorporated into the Spanish language. Tainos, a mixture of various groups, ...
SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico – In Puerto Rico's misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava ...
SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) – In Puerto Rico's misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like ...
The aim of this paper is twofold: The first and major aim is to contribute to the grammatical description of the underdescribed and severely endangered Arawakan language Resígaro, spoken in Colombia ...
SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico _ In Puerto Rico's misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava ...
This article describes an unusual and complicated system of genders and classifiers in Palikur, a northern Arawak language spoken in Brazil and French Guiana. Palikur has three genders (masculine, ...
Two studies that appear in the August/October 2005 issue of Current Anthropology challenge established linguistic theories regarding the language families of Amazonia. Two studies that appear in the ...
Two studies that appear in the August/October 2005 issue of Current Anthropology challenge established linguistic theories regarding the language families of Amazonia. New research by Dan Everett ...