Guajá language

Guajá
	Awá
Native to	Brazil
Region	Maranhão
Ethnicity	Awá-Guajá
Native speakers	280 (2006)[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupi–Guaraní Wayampí Guajá; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gvj
Glottolog	guaj1256[2]

Guajá, or Awá (also Ayaya, Guaxare, Wazaizara), is a geographically isolated Tupi–Guarani language spoken in Brazil. The extinct 'Anambé' recorded by Ehrenreich may have been a distinct language.[3]

References

Guajá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guajá". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 9783110255133.

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[e18-1] Guajá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guajá". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Campbell-SAmerica-3] Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 9783110255133.