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The Lucayan people (/ l uː ˈ k aɪ ən / loo-KY-ən) were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas. They were a branch of the Taínos who inhabited most of the Caribbean islands at the time. The Lucayans were the first Indigenous Americans encountered by ...
Even the name of the country comes from these earliest inhabitants. Turks is a reference to the indigenous Turk's head cactus and Caicos is from the Lucayan term "caya hico" meaning string of islands, words which entered the natives' language through an early colonist, Bernard Caicos. [3]
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; [7] / ˈ t ɜːr k s / and / ˈ k eɪ k ə s,-k oʊ s,-k ɒ s /) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. [8]
Turks and Caicos Islands people by descent (7 C) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in the Turks and Caicos Islands" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Afro–Turks and Caicos Islanders or Black Turks and Caicos Islanders are Turks and Caicos Islanders who are of African descent. [2] As of 2013, people of African descent are the majority ethnic group in the Turks and Caicos Islands accounting for around 87.6% of the territory's population. [1]
Turks and Caicos Islands people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent (1 C) This page was last edited on 19 May 2024, at 17:30 (UTC). Text is ...
A potcake is a term for a dog native to the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. The name came about because locals once fed the stray animals the remains in their cooking pots.
The Turks and Caicos Island Creole variety has not been thoroughly studied but is a dialect of Bahamian Creole. It is also related to Bermudian Creole as the two are reportedly highly mutually intelligible. As of 1995, the number of speakers of Turks and Caicos Islands Creole was thought to be around 10,700, although decreasing and endangered.