Arawak

The Arawak language—specifically known as Lokono—is actively spoken in South America across Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The proto-home of the Arawakan language family traces back to the Orinoco River basin and the region between the Rio Negro and the Orinoco in northern South America (modern-day Venezuela and Guyana).Migration: Over generations, communities traveled along river systems and coastlines, eventually migrating into the Caribbean islands and parts of Central America.Cultural Legacy: Arawak groups were traditionally sedentary farmers, fishers, and hunters. Contact with Europeans led to the extinction of island varieties like Taíno, but many loanwords entered European languages through them, including hammock, hurricane, barbecue, canoe, iguana, and tobacco.