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Arawakan

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Noun

1. arawak, arawakan

a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America

2. arawak, arawakan

a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America

Adjective

3. arawakan

of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Arawakan

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noun
1. 
a family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples throughout NE South America
adjective
2. 
of or relating to the peoples speaking these languages

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Arawakan

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noun
1. 
a family of South American Indian languages, including Arawak
adjective
2. 
designating or of this family of languages

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Arawakan

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n. pl. Arawakan or Ar·a·wa·kans
1. A member of a widespread group of Indian peoples living in an area of South America that includes parts of Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, the Amazon basin of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and formerly most of the Greater Antilles.
2. A large language family of South and Central America, including Taíno, many other living and extinct languages of South America spoken by Arawakan peoples, and Garifuna.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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