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Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.

Dialects

Dialects of Wanyam:

• Cabishi (spurious)
• Cujuna
• Cumaná (Cutianá)
• Matama (Matawa)
• Urunamacan
• Pawumwa (Abitana Wanyam)

Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a Huanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).

References

1. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
2. ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

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