had displaced earlier languages of the Greater Antilles, except in westernmost Cuba and in pockets in Hispaniola. (See .) As the Taíno culture declined during Spanish colonization, the language was replaced by Spanish, English and French. Although the language declined drastically due to colonization, some Taíno words were absorbed into those languages. As the first Indigenous language encountered by Europeans in the Americas, it was a major source of new words borrowed into European languages.

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