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Garifuna is an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Belize by the Garifuna people. It is spoken by a majority of mostly Black-Hondurans.
One interesting feature of Garifuna is a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms used only by women. This does not however affect the entire vocabulary but when it does, the terms used by men generally come from Carib and those used by women come from Arawak.
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- Garifuna (Black Carib). Native Languages of the Americas. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- Langworthy, Geneva (2002). "Language Planning in a Trans-National Speech Community" (PDF). In Indigenous Languages Across the Community, eds. Barbara Burnaby and Jon Reyhner. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, pp. 41-48.
- A Caribbean Vocabulary Compiled in 1666. The United Confederation of Taíno People. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- Palacio, Clifford J.. Online Garifuna Lessons. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- Josephs, K. Marie. Garifuna. Cariblanguage.org. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
