GARIFUNA

noun (plural ~ or ~s) Etymology: ~ garífuna, a self-designation; akin to Taino caribe, caribi Carib, Island Carib (Arawakan language of the Lesser Antilles) Callípona, a self-designation, Guianan Carib kariʔna Carib, person Date: 1977 a member of a people of African and American Indian descent that live mainly along the Caribbean coast of northern Central America