Meaning of Arawak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.
2. A group of Amerindian languages spoken around the Caribbean.
3. A member of an Arawak indigenous group.
4. A Caribbean language belonging to this group.

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“Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.”

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