<P> The Classic Taíno lived in eastern Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico . They spoke a dialect called Classic Taíno . Compared to their neighbors, the Classic Taíno had substantially developed agricultural societies . Puerto Rico was divided into twenty chiefdoms which were organized into one united kingdom or confederation, Borinquen . Hispaniola was divided into roughly 45 chiefdoms, which were organized into five kingdoms under the leadership of the chief of each area's premier chiefdom . Beginning around 1450, Classic Taíno from Hispaniola began migrating to eastern Cuba; they are conventionally known as the Cuban Taíno . The Cuban Taíno gained power over some of Cuba's earlier Western Taíno inhabitants, the Ciboney, but no regional or island - wide political structure had developed on the island at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas . </P> <P> The Eastern Taíno inhabited the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, from the Virgin Islands to Montserrat . They had less sophisticated societies than the Classic Taíno . </P> <P> The Western Taíno lived in the Bahamas, central Cuba, westernmost Hispaniola, and Jamaica . They spoke a dialect known as Ciboney Taíno or Western Taíno . The Western Taíno of the Bahamas were known as the Lucayans, they were wiped out by Spanish slave raids by 1520 . Western Taíno living in Cuba were known as the Ciboney . There are still Tainos in Hispaniola and Jamaica . They had no chiefdoms or organized political structure beyond individual villages, but by the time of Spanish conquest many were under the control of the Cuban Taíno in eastern Cuba . </P> <P> According to oral history, the Igneri were the original Arawak inhabitants of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles before being conquered by the Island Caribs arriving from South America . Contemporary sources indicate that the Caribs took Igneri women as their wives while killing the men, resulting in the two sexes speaking different languages . This appears to be a confusion of the reality: despite the name, the Island Carib language was Arawakan, not Cariban . Irving Rouse suggests that small numbers of Caribs conquered the Igneri without displacing them, and gradually adopted their language while retaining the Carib identity . Though they were Arawaks, the Igneri language appears to be as distinct from the Taíno language as it was from the mainland Arawak language of South America . </P>

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