Some specific countries where this language is spoken include Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela.

[5] The percentage of living fluent speakers with active knowledge of the language is estimated to be 5% of the ethnic population.

[6] There are small communities of semi-speakers who have varying degrees of comprehension and fluency in Lokono that keep the language alive.

[8] The decline in the use of Lokono as a language of communication is due to its lack of transmission from older speakers to the next generation.

[9] The family spans four countries of Central America — Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua — and eight of South America — Bolivia, Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil (and also formerly Argentina and Paraguay).

[10] Arawak is a tribal name in reference to the main crop food, the cassava root, commonly known as manioc.

The cassava root is a popular staple for millions of people in South America, Asia and Africa.

[13] Lokono is an Arawakan language most commonly found to be spoken in eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

Inalienably possessed nouns have what is known as an "unpossessed" form (also known as "absolute") marked with the suffix *-tfi or *-hV.