(REPOST) Arawak Indian Woman Speaks Arawak Language. How similar is it to the Garifuna Language?

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February 19th 2010.

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Bolivar State, Venezuela — Garifuna musician, Alex Ciego put the link below on his Facebook profile recently and after seeing it for myself, I am putting it up here. This youtube clip is from an An Arawak Indian Settlement in the Bolivar State of Venezuela.

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An Arawak Indian woman and an Indian tribal chief are interviewed.  At the 2:48 point, the woman mentions that she makes cassava and at the 4:18 to the 4:25 point, she speaks the Arawak language and some of it sounds like the Garifuna Language.

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Being that The Garifuna Language is basically a mixture of Carib Indian and Arawak Indian Languages (with an African accent?) anyway, it makes sense that the Garifuna language and the Arawak language are similar.

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