Waiká language
For other ethnic Yanomami languages, see Yanomaman languages.
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] |
Waiká, also Yanomámi, is the most populous 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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yanomámi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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