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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

"Written in 1999 and 2000 in preparation for the International Conference 'Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia'"--Acknowledgments. The Arawakan ...

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 ...

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