Taíno language

Arawakan language TaínoNative toBahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, AnguillaEthnicityTaíno, Ciboney, Lucayan, YamayeExtinct17th centuryRevivalReconstruction projects since the 2010s.Language familyArawakan NorthernTa-ArawakanTaínoDialects Classic Taíno Ciboney Language codesISO 639-3tnqGlottologtain1254Taíno dialects according to Granberry and Vescelius, among other Pre-Columbian languages of the Antilles Ciboney Taíno Classic Taíno Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean. At the time of Spanish contact it was the most common language spoken throughout the Caribbean. Classic Taíno, or Taíno proper, was the Indigenous language of the peoples living in most of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico (known as Boriquen), most of Hispaniola (known as Ayiti), and easternmost Cuba. The Ciboney dialect is essentially unattested, but colonial sources suggest that it was very similar to the Lucayan dialects of the Bahamas and to Classic Taíno, and was spoken in central Cuba, parts of western Hispaniola, an