Langenesis

Arawakan family

Taíno

c. 500 CE – 1600 CE Extinct

Taíno (c. 500 CE – 1600 CE) is an extinct Arawakan language. Lineage: Proto-Arawakan → Taíno.

See Taíno on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
tnq
Glottocode
tain1254

Caribbean (Ta-)Arawakan language of the Greater Antilles and Bahamas, the first American language Europeans met (1492). Died out within about a century of the conquest; it survives in loanwords such as hammock, hurricane and canoe.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Arawakanc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  2. Taínoc. 500 CE – 1600 CE

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Arawakan.

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