Social:Waiká language

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Short description: Language
Waiká
Yąnomamɨ
Native toBrazil
RegionRoraima, Amazonas
EthnicityYanomami
Native speakers
6,000 (2006)[1]
Yanomam
  • Waiká
Language codes
ISO 639-3wca
Glottologyano1262[2]
Yanomaman.svg
Yanomaman languages location
  Ninam
  Yanomám

Waiká, also Yanomám (or Yanomae, Yanomama, Yanomami),[3] 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

  1. Waiká at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Yanomám". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yano1262. 
  3. Ferreira, Helder Perri; Machado, Ana Maria Antunes; Senra, Estevão Benfica. 2019. As línguas Yanomami no Brasil: diversidade e vitalidade. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN). 216pp. ISBN:978-85-8226-076-0