#macorix_language

Macorix language

Extinct language of Hispaniola

Macorix was the language of the northern coast of what is today the Dominican Republic. Spanish accounts only refer to three languages on the island: Taíno, Macorix, and neighboring Ciguayo. The Macorix people appear to have been semi-sedentary and their presence seems to have predated the agricultural Taíno who came to occupy much of the island. For the early European writers, they shared similarities with the nearby Ciguayos. Their language appears to have been moribund at the time of the Spanish Conquest, and within a century it was extinct.

Wed 8th

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