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Map of the indigenous languages of the Caribbean in 1492. This list is a compilation of the indigenous names that were given by Amerindian people to the Caribbean islands before the Europeans started naming them. The islands of the Caribbean were successively settled since at least around 5000 BC, long before European arrival in 1492.
a region dominated by a cacique. Cacique comes from the Taíno word kassiquan, meaning 'to keep house,' or meaning: 'a lord, dominating a great territory.' The different names given by the five regions in reality was given by the Indigenous people based on the various Indigenous groups living on those areas. —
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different Indigenous groups, from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno (Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
Taíno is a term referring to a historic Indigenous people of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by their descendants and Taíno revivalist communities. [2] [3] [4] Indigenous people in the Greater Antilles did not refer to themselves as Taínos, as the term was coined by the anthropologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in ...
Caribbean people; Total population; c. 45–47 million: Regions with significant populations Colombia: 12 million Cuba: 11 million Haiti: 11 million Dominican Republic: 10 million Puerto Rico: 3.4 million Jamaica: 2.7 million Trinidad and Tobago: 1.3 million Guyana: 790 thousand Suriname: 633 thousand: Languages
The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, itself a hispanicization derived from the Lucayan Lukku-Cairi, which the people used for themselves, meaning "people of the islands". The Taíno word for "island", cairi , became cayo in Spanish and " cay " / ˈ k iː / in English [spelled "key" in American English].
Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean (23 C, 43 P) J. Jews and Judaism in the Caribbean (5 C, 3 P) K. Kalinago (4 C, 7 P) M. Multiracial affairs in the Caribbean (2 C, 8 P)
Indigenous peoples in Trinidad and Tobago (3 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.