Arawak language

Arawak
Arawak
Lokono
Native to	French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Jamaica, Barbados
Region	Guianas
Ethnicity	Lokono (Arawak)
Native speakers	(2,500 cited 1990–2012)
Language family	Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Arawak; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	arw
ISO 639-3	arw
Glottolog	araw1276
ELP	Lokono
	Arawakan languages in South America and the Caribbean
	Arawak is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Arawak (Arowak, Aruák), also known as Lokono (Lokono Dian, literally "people's talk" by its speakers), is an Arawakan language spoken by the Lokono (Arawak) people of South America in eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.^[2] It is the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family.

Lokono is an active–stative language.^[3]

^ Arawak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Pet 2011, p. 2
^ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.

[e25-1] Arawak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Pet 2011, p. 2

[3] Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.

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Arawak
Lokono
Native to	French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Jamaica, Barbados
Region	Guianas
Ethnicity	Lokono (Arawak)
Native speakers	(2,500 cited 1990–2012)^[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Arawak
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`arw`
ISO 639-3	`arw`
Glottolog	`araw1276`
ELP	Lokono
Arawakan languages in South America and the Caribbean
Arawak is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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Arawak language

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