page_title: Macro-Arawakan languages
hierarchical_section_title: Macro-Arawakan languages
caption_attribution_description: English: Proper Arawak Languages (Maipurean) (blue), Arawan Languages (green), Wahiboan languages (violet). Documented locations languages at present are signaled by spots, and approximate early probable areas are shadowed. Based on data of Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald "The Arawak Languages" in The Amazonian Languages, Dixon &amp; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. p. 65-106., p. 292-306 &amp; p.
context_page_description: Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean centered on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes, the proposal is called Arawakan, and the central family is called Maipurean.
context_section_description: Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean centered on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes, the proposal is called Arawakan, and the central family is called Maipurean.
caption: Arawakan languages (blue dots), Guajiboan languages (violet dots), and Arauan languages (green dots). Paler areas represent probable extension at the time of contact.
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