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.
Javier A. Hernández, a Puerto Rican linguist, polyglot, and indigenous rights activist, developed the Tainonaíki Alphabet in 2019 to enhance and reinforce the modern Taino language, also known as Tainonaíki. Javier is a registered member of the AraYeke Yukayek Taino Indigenous Community, which has officially adopted Tainonaíki as their indigenous language. The Tainonaíki Alphabet is considered as an alphabet-abjad hybrid .
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