Mandawaca language

Mandahuaca
Mandawaka
Native toVenezuela, formerly Brazil
Native speakers
(3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3mht
Glottologmand1448
ELPMandahuaca

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian,[2] Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Mandahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
  3. ^ Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.