Arawakan languages

GPTKB entity

Statements (98)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf language family
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Arawak_languages
gptkb:Maipurean_languages
gptkbp:class gptkb:Eastern_Arawakan
gptkb:Northern_Arawakan
gptkb:Southern_Arawakan
gptkb:Western_Arawakan
gptkbp:color gptkb:American
gptkbp:glottologCode awd
araw1287
gptkbp:historicalSignificance widest geographical distribution of any South American language family
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Arawakan languages
gptkbp:ISO639-3 awd
gptkbp:language about 40
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Arawakan
gptkbp:linguisticFeature agglutinative
polysynthetic
verb-final word order
gptkbp:notableContributor gptkb:Johann_Baptist_von_Spix
gptkb:Johann_Gottfried_Herder
gptkb:Johann_Christoph_Adelung
gptkb:Johann_Karl_Eduard_Buschmann
gptkb:Johann_Natterer
gptkbp:notableExtinctions gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkb:Guajiro
gptkb:Taíno
gptkb:Lucayan
Shebayo
gptkbp:notableLanguage gptkb:Asháninka
gptkb:Arawak
gptkb:Garifuna
gptkb:Wayuu
gptkb:Baniwa
gptkb:Baure
gptkb:Palikur
gptkb:Tariana
gptkb:Wapishana
gptkb:Yanesha'
gptkbp:origin northern South America
gptkbp:region gptkb:Caribbean
gptkb:Central_America
gptkb:North_America
gptkb:South_America
gptkb:Amazon_Basin
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:Antigua_and_Barbuda
gptkb:Argentina
gptkb:Aruba
gptkb:Bahamas
gptkb:Barbados
gptkb:Belize
gptkb:Bolivia
gptkb:Bonaire
gptkb:Brazil
gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Colombia
gptkb:Costa_Rica
gptkb:Cuba
gptkb:Curaçao
gptkb:Dominica
gptkb:Dominican_Republic
gptkb:Ecuador
gptkb:El_Salvador
gptkb:Grenada
gptkb:Guadeloupe
gptkb:Guatemala
gptkb:Guyana
gptkb:Haiti
gptkb:Honduras
gptkb:Jamaica
gptkb:Martinique
gptkb:Mexico
gptkb:Nicaragua
gptkb:Panama
gptkb:Paraguay
gptkb:Peru
gptkb:Puerto_Rico
gptkb:Saba
gptkb:Saint_Barthélemy
gptkb:Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis
gptkb:Saint_Lucia
gptkb:Saint_Martin
gptkb:Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines
gptkb:Sint_Maarten
gptkb:Suriname
gptkb:Trinidad_and_Tobago
gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Venezuela
gptkb:French_Guiana
gptkb:Trinidad
gptkb:Saint_Eustatius
gptkb:Caribbean_Sea_region
gptkbp:status some endangered
many extinct
some still spoken
gptkbp:subfamily gptkb:Macro-Arawakan_languages
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_script
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4