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Arawakanist
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English
Etymology
From en Arawakan ist.
Noun
A linguist who specialises in studying Arawakan languages.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=pkxmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR7&dq=%22Arawakanists%22 A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) Elena Mihas w:De Gruyter 9783110766301 2015 vii My sincere acknowledgements are extended to the Arawakanists whose work built a foundation for my research:
en https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t88q9xz Caribbean Northern Arawak person marking and alignment Tammy Elizabeth Stark w:University of California, Berkeley dissertation 0438323955 2018 3 The creation of a large comparative wordlist and cognate sets for this group of Arawak will advance a reconstruction of the phonological inventory of proto-CNA, moving a phonological reconstruction for proto-Arawak up a branch in the tree. Additionally, collaboration with other Arawakanists in creating similar datasets for other branches of Arawak will eventually allow for a much larger-scale lexical phylogenetic analysis.