40 living languages in extensive and unbroken networks spanning Caribbean, Florida, Central & South America

Encountered by Columbus and European explorers in far-flung populations of the New World.

Modern genetic testing confirms sizable populations now living in West Indies, Central & South America.

Covering geography in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Florida, and much of Amazonia, the Arawak people maintain continuous culture, identity and ethnicity in diaspora. Arawakan is the largest linguistic family in South American & the Caribbean.