GARIFUNA


Meaning of GARIFUNA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌgä-rē-ˈfü-nə ]

noun

( plural Garifuna or Ga·ri·fu·nas )

Etymology: Garifuna 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 — called also Black Carib ; also : the Arawakan language containing many Cariban elements spoken by the Garifunas

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