In our Thursday edition we carried a report on a Gina release about the launch of an Arawak language revival project in Capoey. The final paragraph reported Gina as saying that it was estimated there ...

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs has launched a new project to rejuvenate the Arawak language, as part of a larger objective of revitalising the rich culture of Amerindians in Guyana. A release from ...

The words mean hammock, hurricane and peanut butter. They are part of the Arawak language spoken by Tainos and later incorporated into the Spanish language. Tainos, a mixture of various groups, ...

In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they ...

Kabakaburi, Guyana - At 86, John Peter Bennett is blind and nearly deaf, but he's still sharp enough to detect a dropped syllable in his beloved native tongue. Living in the village where he was born, ...

SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico – In Puerto Rico's misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Phylogenetic inference based on language is a vital tool for tracing the dynamics of human population expansions. The timescale of agriculture ...

Two studies that appear in the August/October 2005 issue of Current Anthropology challenge established linguistic theories regarding the language families of Amazonia. Two studies that appear in the ...