Waiwai language

Waiwai
Native to Brazil, Guyana
Ethnicity Wai-Wai
Native speakers
 (2,200 cited 1990–2006)[1]
Cariban
  • Parukotoan
    • Waiwai languages
      • Waiwai
Dialects
  • Katawian (Tunayana)
  • Karahawyana
Language codes
ISO 639-3 waw
Glottolog waiw1244[2]

Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/[3] (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana and Suriname.

References

  1. ↑ Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Waiwai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
  • Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Waiwai". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
  • Waiwai Collection of Niels Fock from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, containing audio recordings of ceremonial chants and photographs made in the 1950s.


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