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'Garifuna' is an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Belize by the Garifuna people.
Spoken by a majority of Afro-Hondurans.
A French-based creole language spoken in Livingston, Guatemala is also called "Garifuna".
One interesting feature of Garifuna is a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms used only by women. This does not however affect the entire vocabulary but when it does, the terms used by men generally come from Carib and those used by women come from Arawak.

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★ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. "Garifuna". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.

★ Garifuna (Black Carib)

★ Langworthy, Geneva (2002). "Language Planning in a Trans-National Speech Community" (PDF). In ''Indigenous Languages Across the Community'', eds. Barbara Burnaby and Jon Reyhner. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, pp. 41-48.

★ A Caribbean Vocabulary Compiled in 1666

★ Online Garifuna Lessons Palacio, Clifford J.

★ Garifuna Josephs, K. Marie