Ta-Arawakan languages
The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the Indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and South America. They are distinguished by the first person pronominal prefix ta-, as opposed to common Arawakan ''na-.''
Languages
provides the following subclassification:Aikhenvald adds Shebayo, which Kaufman had left unclassified, and removes Iñeri from Ta-Arawakan proper:
- Caribbean Arawakan
- * Iñeri
- **Island [Carib language|Kalhíphona]
- * Ta-Arawakan
- **Taíno
- ** Wayuu
- ** Paraujano
- ** Arawák
- ** Shebayo
- ** Caquetio