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Mandawaca language

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(Redirected from Mandahuaca language) Arawakan language spoken in Venezuela Not to be confused with Baré language.
Mandahuaca
Mandawaka
Native toVenezuela
Native speakers(3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)
Language familyArawakan
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, Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.

References

  1. Mandahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Arawakan (Maipurean) languages
Northern
Caribbean
Palikuran
Pidjanan
Upper Amazon
Western Nawiki
Eastern Nawiki
Central Upper Amazon
Manao
Southern
Western
Central Maipurean
Piro
Bolivia–Parana
Campa
Macro-Arawakan
Languages of Venezuela
Official language
Indigenous
languages
Arawakan
Arutani-Sape
Cariban
Chibchan
Guahiban
Jirajaran
Timotean
Other
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