What is Arawak people?
[[File:Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 60008905 Een groep Arowakken en Karaiben in fe.jpg|thumb|375x375px|A group of Arawak people, showing their customary dress. Image taken in [[Paramaribo|Panamaribo]] ([[Suriname]]), between 1880 and 1900]] [[File:Arawak-Languages.png|thumb|364x364px|Documented Arawak languages: Northern Arawak languages are light blue, South-West Arawak languages are darker blue]] The '''Arawak''' were a group of people who lived in the northern part of [[South America]], and the Caribbean. After the [[colonization]] of South America, they became extinct, within a period of about a century, to a century and a half. Today, only very few people who call themselves Arawak remain. There's also a group of languages called the [[Arawakian languages]], which show what influence these people probably once had. Today, there are about 2000 speakers left, 1500 in [[Guyana]], and 700 in [[Suriname]]. In the year 1515, there were about 50.000 Native American allies (to the Spanish) on [[Haiti|Haitit]], from an original estimate of 250.000. In 1550, there were about 500 people. 1650, there were none left. [[Category:Ethnic groups in South America]] [[Category:Guyanese people]] [[Category:Surinamese people]]