Taíno

E4202
Arawakan people Indigenous people

The Taíno were an Indigenous Arawakan-speaking people of the Caribbean, especially the Greater Antilles, whose culture and language significantly influenced the region before and after European contact.

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All labels observed (16)

Label Occurrences
Taíno canonical 6
Taíno people 4
Taíno culture 3

Statements (65)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
affectedBy Old World diseases ⓘ
Spanish colonization of the Americas ⓘ
surface form: Spanish colonization

enslavement ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
culturalContinuity surviving descendants in Caribbean ⓘ
culturalInfluenceOn Caribbean cuisine ⓘ
Caribbean languages ⓘ
Caribbean place names ⓘ
Caribbean religious practices ⓘ
culturalPractice areíto (ceremonial song-dance) ⓘ
ball game in batey ⓘ
dwellingType bohío (circular house) ⓘ
caney (rectangular chief’s house) ⓘ
economy horticulture ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Caribbean ⓘ
firstContactWithEuropeans Christopher Columbus ⓘ
firstContactYear 1492 ⓘ
influencedLanguage Spanish ⓘ
inhabitedRegion Bahamas ⓘ
Cuba ⓘ
Greater Antilles ⓘ
Hispaniola ⓘ
Jamaica ⓘ
Puerto Rico ⓘ
languageFamily Arawakan languages ⓘ
leaderTitle cacique ⓘ
loanwordInEnglish barbecue ⓘ
canoe ⓘ
hammock ⓘ
hurricane ⓘ
loanwordInSpanish barbacoa ⓘ
hamaca ⓘ
huracán ⓘ
maíz ⓘ
tabaco ⓘ
mainCrop cassava ⓘ
maize ⓘ
sweet potato ⓘ
mainFoodSource fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
materialCulture canoes ⓘ
cotton hammocks ⓘ
duho (ceremonial stool) ⓘ
zemí carvings ⓘ
modernDescendantCommunities Cuba ⓘ
Dominican Republic ⓘ
Jamaica ⓘ
Puerto Rico ⓘ
United States diaspora ⓘ
populationTrendAfterContact sharp decline ⓘ
practicedReligion Taíno religion ⓘ
recognizedAs Indigenous people of the Caribbean ⓘ
religion polytheism ⓘ
socialClass behique (shamans) ⓘ
naboría (commoners) ⓘ
nitaíno (nobility/warriors) ⓘ
socialStructure chiefdoms ⓘ
spokeLanguage Taíno language ⓘ
timePeriod Post-contact Caribbean colonial period ⓘ
Pre-Columbian era ⓘ
villageCenterStructure batey (plaza/ball court) ⓘ
worshippedDeityType zemí spirits ⓘ

Referenced by (31)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Haitian Creole → hasSubstrateInfluenceFrom → Taíno ⓘ
Puerto Rican Spanish → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno languages
Caribbean → hasEthnicGroup → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Indigenous Caribbean peoples
Puerto Ricans → hasAncestry → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno people
Pre-Columbian era → includesCivilization → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taino people
Pre-Columbian era → includesCivilization → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Arawak peoples
Dominican Republic → ethnicInfluence → Taíno ⓘ
Dominican Republic → hasCulturalInfluenceFrom → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno peoples
Raíces Fountain → depicts → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno people
Arawakan languages → hasLanguage → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno language
Lucayan Archipelago → namedAfter → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lucayan people
Lucayan Archipelago → hasHistoricalInhabitants → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lucayan people
Caribbean islands → indigenousPeoples → Taíno ⓘ
indigenous peoples of the Americas → includesEthnicGroup → Taíno ⓘ
subject surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Spanish conquest of Cuba → mainBelligerent → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno people
Ciboney language → spokenBy → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ciboney people
Ciboney language → alternativeName → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ciboney
Ciboney language → alternativeName → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ciboneyan
Guanahani → culturalContext → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno-speaking Lucayan culture
Caguax → ethnicity → Taíno ⓘ
Caguax → culture → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno culture
Caguax → language → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno language
Haitians → ethnicOrigin → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Indigenous Taíno
Coat of arms of Jamaica → featuresSupporter → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taino woman
Arawak → relatedEthnicGroup → Taíno ⓘ
Bomba → hasCulturalRootsIn → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno people
Cuban Spanish → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno language
Dominicans → historicalInfluence → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno culture
History of the United States Virgin Islands → involvesEthnicGroup → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taino people
eastern Jamaica → hasEthnicInfluence → Taíno ⓘ
subject surface form: Eastern Jamaica
this entity surface form: Indigenous Taíno
Boca de Guamá → hasCulturalTheme → Taíno ⓘ
this entity surface form: Taíno culture