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The Arawakan languages are spoken over a large swath of territory, from the eastern slopes of the central Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia, across the Amazon basin of Brazil, to Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia on the northern coast of South America.
Taíno, commonly called Arawak, was spoken on the Caribbean islands of Cuba, HispaniolaHispaniola (from Spanish, La Espanola is the second-largest island of the Antilles, lying east of Cuba. Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1492, and in 1493 founded the first Spanish colony in the New World on it. On March 10, 1496, Columbus left the i, Puerto RicoThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico") is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Gr, JamaicaThis article is about the country. For others uses, see Jamaica (disambiguation). Jamaica is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Jamaica ( In Detail), and the BahamasThe Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an independent English-speaking nation in the West Indies. An archipelago of 700 islands and cays (which are small islands), the Bahamas is located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida in the United States, north of Cu. All Taíno speakers are now thought to be bilingual in EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil or SpanishThis article is about the international language known as Spanish. For other languages spoken in Spain see Languages of Spain Spanish is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first langua.The CaribThis article is about the Island Carib, who lived on the islands of the Caribbean. For the Carib language-speaking peoples of the South American continent, see Carib languages. The Carib or Island Carib are a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after w, after whom the Caribbean was named, formerly lived throughout the Lesser AntillesThe Lesser Antilles are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas form the West Indies. They are a long chain of islands, wrapped around the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The Lesser Antilles are (gen. The Carib language is now extinct, although Caribs still live on Dominica. Garífuna, which is thought to have about 190,000 speakers, is spoken on the north coast of Honduras, by the descendants of Caribs brought from Saint Vincent in 1796.