Lucayan Language
Lucayan may refer to: *Lucayan Archipelago, comprising the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands *Lucayan people, the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of Europeans *Lucayan language, a dialect of the extinct Taíno language *Lucayan Formation, a geologic formation in the Bahamas * a resident of Lucaya, Bahamas Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of Grand Bahama, approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lucaya's primary industry is tourism. Major hotels and attractions in the resort ...

Lucayan Archipelago
The Lucayan Archipelago (named for the original native Lucayan people), also known as the Bahama Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba and the other Antilles, and east and southeast of Florida. William Keegan writes: "Modern political considerations aside, the islands form a single archipelago with common geological, ecological, and cultural roots." Though part of the West Indies, the Lucayan Archipelago is not located on the Caribbean Sea. Proposed federation In 2010, the leaders of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands discussed the possibility of forming a federation. Countries and territories * The Bahamas * Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom) The Mouchoir Bank, the Silver Bank, and the Navidad Bank are a submerged continuation of the archipelago, to the southeast of the Turks and Ca ...
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Lucayan People
The Lucayan people ( ) were the original residents of the Bahamas before the European conquest of the Americas. They were a branch of the Taínos who inhabited most of the Caribbean islands at the time. The Lucayans were the first indigenous Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus. Shortly after contact, the Spanish kidnapped and enslaved Lucayans, with the genocide culminating in complete eradication of Lucayan people from the Bahamas by 1520. The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish ''Lucayos'', itself a hispanicization derived in turn from the Taíno ''Lukku-Cairi'' (which the people used for themselves), meaning "people of the islands". (The Taíno word for "island", ''cairi'', became ''cayo'' in Spanish and "cay" in English pelled "key" in American English) Some crania and artifacts of "Ciboney type" were reportedly found on Andros Island, but if some Ciboney did reach the Bahamas ahead of the Lucayans, they left no known evidence of occupation. Some ...
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Lucayan Language
Lucayan may refer to: *Lucayan Archipelago, comprising the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands *Lucayan people, the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of Europeans *Lucayan language, a dialect of the extinct Taíno language *Lucayan Formation, a geologic formation in the Bahamas * a resident of Lucaya, Bahamas Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of Grand Bahama, approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lucaya's primary industry is tourism. Major hotels and attractions in the resort ...

Lucayan Formation
The Lucayan Formation is a geologic formation in the Bahamas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Early Pleistocene period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Bahamas The Paleobiology Database lists no known fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The database also records no fossiliferous stratigraphic units within several regions of t ... References Further reading * A. F. Budd and C. Manfrino. 2001. Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores. in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 41-59 Geologic formations of the Caribbean Geology of the Bahamas Neogene Caribbean Limestone formations Reef deposits {{Bahamas-stub ...
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