per cent of the total population of Guyana and Waiwai, Makushi and Wapishana. All of these interior groups about 90 per cent of the communities are originally spoke Carib with the exception of the Wapishana, who located in the vast remote interior. This is in are within the Taino-Arawak linguistic family. contrast to the majority of Guyana's people Source: who are essentially concentrated on the narrow World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples Atlantic coastal strip. http://minorityrights.org/minorities/indigenous-peoples-3/ Source: World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples The original inhabitants of the island of The overwhelming majority of the population (95%)of Haiti is Hispaniola (now Haiti/DR) were the predominantly of African descent. The rest of the population is indigenous Taíno, an Arawak-speaking people mostly of mixed European-African ancestry (mulatto). who began arriving from the Yucatan peninsula as early as 4000 BCE. Joined later Source: by successive additional waves of indigenous World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples groups from the Orinoco/Amazon region of http://minorityrights.org/country/haiti South America (present-day Venezuela) the Taíno settled all across the Caribbean and became known as the Island Arawaks. The name Haiti is derived from the indigenous Taíno-Arawak name for the entire island of Hispaniola, which they called Ay-ti of ‘land mountains’. Source: World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples http://minorityrights.org/country/haiti
per cent of the total population of Guyana and about 90 per cent of the communities are located in the vast remote interior. This is in contrast to the majority of Guyana's people who are essentially concentrated on the narrow Atlantic coastal strip. Source: World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples Waiwai, Makushi and Wapishana. All of these interior groups originally spoke Carib with the exception of the Wapishana, who are within the Taino-Arawak linguistic family. Source: World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples http://minorityrights.org/minorities/indigenous-peoples-3/ The original inhabitants of the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti/DR) were the indigenous Taíno, an Arawak-speaking people who began arriving from the Yucatan peninsula as early as 4000 BCE. Joined later by successive additional waves of indigenous groups from the Orinoco/Amazon region of South America (present-day Venezuela) the Taíno settled all across the Caribbean and became known as the Island Arawaks. The name Haiti is derived from the indigenous Taíno-Arawak name for the entire island of Hispaniola, which they called Ay-ti ‘land of mountains’. Source: World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples http://minorityrights.org/country/haiti The overwhelming majority of the population (95%)of Haiti is predominantly of African descent. The rest of the population is mostly of mixed European-African ancestry (mulatto). Source: World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples http://minorityrights.org/country/haiti
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