Arawakan ("Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper"), also known as Maipurean (also "Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre"), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Among South American countries, only present-day Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile have never had peoples who spoke Arawakan languages. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock.