Arawak (Arowak Aruák) is the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family. The term is often used to cover the closely related Taíno language of the Caribbean islands. The ethnonym Lokono may be used more specifically.Arawak has an active–stative syntax.
ISO 639-2 code
arw
ISO 639-3 code
arw
family
Arawakan languages, Ta-Arawakan languages
spoken in
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, The Guianas
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