The Taíno people were an indigenous Arawak-speaking people who inhabited the Greater Antilles, which includes present-day Cuba, Hispaniola (comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, at the time of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492. Classical Taíno, as spoken by the indigenous communities in the 1500s, is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken throughout most of the Caribbean, except in western Cuba and parts of Hispaniola.
The Naguaké Taíno Pictographic Alphabet, designed by Dr. Yarey Meléndez in 2005, is utilized to transcribe a reconstructed form of the Taino language, called Taíno-Borikenaíki. Dr. Meléndez is a prominent educator and leader in the Naguaké Taíno community of Puerto Rico.
This alphabet was inspired by the petroglyphs of the Taíno people, which were a means of pre-writing or proto-writing. These glyphs, featuring human and animal figures as well as abstract shapes, were found on cave walls, large rocks in river beds, and stone monoliths.
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