Waiká language

Waiká
	Yąnomamɨ
Native to	Brazil
Region	Roraima, Amazonas
Ethnicity	Yanomami
Native speakers	6,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Yanomam Waiká;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wca
Glottolog	yano1262[2]

Waiká, also Yanomámi, 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). "Yanomámi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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

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