Meaning of Arawakanist | Babel Free

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A linguist who specialises in studying Arawakan languages.

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“My sincere acknowledgements are extended to the Arawakanists whose work built a foundation for my research: […]”

“The creation of a large comparative wordlist and cognate sets for this group of Arawak will advance a reconstruction of the phonological inventory of proto-CNA, moving a phonological reconstruction for proto-Arawak up a branch in the tree. Additionally, collaboration with other Arawakanists in creating similar datasets for other branches of Arawak will eventually allow for a much larger-scale lexical phylogenetic analysis.”

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