| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.[Wordnet] 2. A family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America.[Wordnet]. | |
| Adjective | 1. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.[Wordnet] 2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb arawakanly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (arawakanly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective arawakan.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "Arawakan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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| Arawakan languages | The languages called Arawakan or Maipuran were originally recognized as a separate group in the late nineteenth century. Almost all the languages now called Arawakan share a first-person singular prefix nu-, but Arawak proper has ta-. Other commonalities include a second-person singular pi-, relative ka-, and negative ma-. In recent years this core family of undoubtedly related languages has been renamed Maipuran by North American taxonomists, to distinguish it from a larger and hypothetical phylum also called Arawakan. (references) | ||
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| Arawakan languages | 14 | Arawakan languages | 14 | |
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