Mandawaca language
Not to be confused with Baré language.
Mandahuaca | |
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Mandawaka | |
Native to | Venezuela |
Native speakers | (3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)[1] |
Arawakan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mht |
Glottolog |
mand1448 [2] |
Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.
Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.
References
- ↑ Mandahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mandahuaca". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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