Taino
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪnoʊ/
Noun
Taino (plural Tainos or Taino)
- A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
- 2015, Donald H Sullivan, Turnbull's Slaves: A Minorcan Story - Plus Taino, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
- He was accepted as a Taino now and must adapt to their ways.
- 2016, Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 24:
- Following the birth of a baby, Tainos would perform a naming ritual where the child would be pronounced as a Taino and a human being (Keegan, 1997).
Translations
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Taíno terms
Further reading
- ISO 639-3 code tnq (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Taino, tnq
Italian
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