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Garifuna is a member of the Arawakan language family albeit an atypical one since, 1) it is spoken outside of the Arawakan
language area which is confined to the northern parts of South America, and 2) because it contains an unusually high number
of loanwords, from both Carib and a number of European languages, attesting to an extremely tumultuous past involving warfare,
migration and colonization. The language was once confined to the Antillean island of St. Vincent but due to twists of fate
its speakers landed on Mainland Honduras from where the language has since spread south to Nicaragua and north to Guatemala
and Belize. In later years a large number of Garifuna people has settled in a great number of larger US cities, presumably
as part of a more general pattern of north bound migration. Since colonial times and until as recent as the latter half of
the 20th Century the language was known to non-Garifuna communities as Carib or Black Carib and Igñeri. Parts of Garifuna
vocabulary are split between men's speech and women's speech, i.e. some concepts have two words to express them, one for women
and one for men. Moreover, the terms used by men are generally loanwords from Carib while those used by women are Arawak.
The Garifuna language was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2009 along with Garifuna
music and dance. |
Names (more)[de] Garifuna[en] Garifuna language [fi] Garifunan kieli [it] Lingua garifuna [ko] 가리푸나어 [lt] Garifūnų kalba [nl] Garifuna [no] Garifuna [pl] Język garifuna [pt] Língua garífuna [qu] Garifuna simi [ru] Гарифуна [sk] Garifuna [es] Idioma garífuna |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : cabLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cabhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:cab More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: cabFreebase ISO 639-3 : cab GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |