Caribs

1. a member of an indigenous South American people living mainly in coastal regions of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela.
2. the language of the Caribs, the only member of the Cariban family of languages still spoken by a substantial number of people (around 20,000).
3. an unrelated Arawakan language, now extinct, formerly spoken in the Lesser Antilles.

from Spanish caribe, from Haitian Creole. Compare with cannibal.