Social:Waiká language
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Short description: Language
| Waiká | |
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| Yąnomamɨ | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Roraima, Amazonas |
| Ethnicity | Yanomami |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2006)[1] |
Yanomam
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wca |
| Glottolog | yano1262[2] |
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Waiká, also Yanomám (or Yanomae, Yanomama, Yanomami),[3] is one of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people in Brazil . Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
The names Waika (Guaica) and Yanomami are shared with the Yanomamö language.
References
- ↑ Waiká at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Yanomám". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yano1262.
- ↑ Ferreira, Helder Perri; Machado, Ana Maria Antunes; Senra, Estevão Benfica. 2019. As línguas Yanomami no Brasil: diversidade e vitalidade. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN). 216pp. ISBN:978-85-8226-076-0
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