Arawakanist

English

Etymology

From Arawakan +‎ -ist.

Noun

Arawakanist (plural Arawakanists)

1. A linguist who specialises in studying Arawakan languages.
   • 2015, Elena Mihas, A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page vii:

     My sincere acknowledgements are extended to the Arawakanists whose work built a foundation for my research: […]

   • 2018, Tammy Elizabeth Stark, Caribbean Northern Arawak person marking and alignment‎^[1] (dissertation), University of California, Berkeley, →ISBN, page 3:

     The creation of a large comparative wordlist and cognate sets for this group of Arawak will advance a reconstruction of the phonological inventory of proto-CNA, moving a phonological reconstruction for proto-Arawak up a branch in the tree. Additionally, collaboration with other Arawakanists in creating similar datasets for other branches of Arawak will eventually allow for a much larger-scale lexical phylogenetic analysis.