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where did the name trinidad and tobago come from
Christopher Columbus named Trinidad La Isla de la Trinidad. Tobago's cigar-like shape, or the use of tobacco by the native people, may have given it its Spanish name.
what was trinidad's native name
The original name for the island of Trinidad in the Arawaks' language was Iëre which meant Land of the Hummingbird.

Question: what language did the people speak
Self-contained rewrite: what language did the arawak people speak