Aruák

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Aruák is another name for the Lokono language, an Arawakan language spoken by the Lokono (Arawak) people of northern South America and the Caribbean.

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Aruák canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
language
ethnicGroupAssociated Arawak
Lokono
hasAlternativeName Arawak language
linked to: Arawakan languages

Lokono language
hasEndonym Lokono
hasExonym Arawak
hasGlottocode araw1276
hasGlottologName Lokono
hasISO639-3Code aro
hasLanguageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasName Lokono
hasSubfamily Northern Arawakan
hasTypologicalFeature mostly SVO word order
isPartOf Arawakan language family
languageFamilyBranch Maipurean
languageStatus endangered language
region Caribbean
northern South America
spokenBy Arawak people
linked to: Arawak

Lokono people
linked to: Lokono
spokenIn Caribbean region
linked to: Caribbean

French Guiana
Guyana
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Venezuela
usedFor daily communication in some Lokono communities
ritual communication
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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