Its been a while since I have chimed in on this subject. It will be almost a year and people are still using Tau ( I guess they didn’t get the memo)

The Taino Language remains the #1 most popular group on the various nings with most members who for the most part do not get involved in trying to learn it and practice it online.

The Tau discussion was brung to Taino Naboria society to create dissension (you would think people would have better things to do) and the detracting parties were banned (because of breaches on the code of conduct) or left on their own.

Till this day no one ever proved their allegations and they have moved on.

Tainoray

In the 1990′s there were 2 Taino Yucayekes working on the Taino Language

1.) Taino Intertribal Council – Taino Language Project –

http://members.dandy.net/~orocobix/tedict.html

2.) Taino Nation Of the Antilles – http://nacion_taina.tripod.com/id16.html

Here you will find references that “Tau” means good

Everybody know’s the American greeting Good Morning, Good Night

Tau Guey, Tau Caraya (Nacion Taina) and Tai Caraya (Jatibonuco Site)

Were attempts to translate these greetings into Taino

These 2 dictionaries have been used by the Taino community as well as the Greater Community for many years. After 500 years People were once again speaking Taino and writing Taino to one another. This made people very happy to use Taino words in their vocabulary.

Taino Language is something the people hunger for.

tainoray

When the question for the origin of the word Tau first came up on the UCTP site
I didn’t give it much thought because Taino greetings have continuously changed throughout the years.

This is my recollection from the mid 1990′s

From my understanding “Tau” mean’t good

Some references used “Tai” for the same meaning

As I remember first it was

Tau Ti – like the word Taino Ti

Tau Guey – Good Sun (Good Morning)

Tau Mautia – Good Day

Tau Caraya – Good Moon (Good Night)

OTHER TAINO GREETINGS

Wuisan, Mabrika, Takaji, Bomatum

All of these greetings were used by Taino people throughout the years and were accepted as legitimate.

There was never a controversy over any of these words or phrases

tainoray

Here is a link to the web page of the Taino Nation of the Antilles

The author is a humble man who I have the utmost respect for and a man who I trust.

http://tainonation.info/id16.html

“The information found on this page is based on approximately 30 years of language research by Kaçike Boriwex. Understand that this research is a work in progress and updates and changes will be made from time to time. We will try to include word lists and phrases that will be useful in daily speech, that way we can put into practice our language as another step in the restoration effort of our people”