Salaoids/Saladeros in the 500s BCE. Originating in the Orinoco, our Saladoid/Saladero ancestors, linguistically called the Eyeri, brought their language with them, reaching up the Lesser Antilles and into Puerto Rico and eastern DR to settle. Over the many centuries, there would be a couple of waves of Kali’na speakers to the islands, the last of which arrived sometime in the 1200-1400s, influencing the Eyeri language into what it is today: “Kalinago”