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Macorix (also rendered Macorís and Mazorij) was the language of the Pedernales Peninsula and the northern coast of what is now the Dominican Republic. It is assumed that the language in the two places was the same because Spanish accounts only count three languages on the island: Taino, Macorix, and neighboring Ciguayo. The Macorix people were hunter-gathers and appear to have predated the agricultural Taino who inhabited much of the island. Their language appears to have been moribund at the time of the Spanish Conquest, and within a century it was extinct. Little is known of Macorix apart from it being a distinct language from Taino and neighboring Ciguayo. A negative form, ''baeza'' , is the only element of the language that is directly attested. ''Baeza'' could be Arawakan (though not Taino or Iñeri), analyzable as ''ba-ésa'' 'no-thing' = 'nothing'. (Cf. Manao ''ma-esa'' 'no, not', Paresis ''ma-isa'' 'not'. The negative prefix is ''ba-'' in Amarakaeri which, even if it is related to the Arawakan languages, is not close enough to be relevant here.) Therre are also some non-Taino toponyms from the area that Granberry & Vescelius (2004) suggest may be Waroid: (Cf. a similar list at Guanahatabey language.) ==See also== *Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Macorix language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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