Waiwai language
Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/[2] (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana and Suriname.
| Waiwai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil, Guyana, Suriname |
| Ethnicity | Wai-Wai |
Native speakers | (2,200 cited 1990–2006)[1] |
Cariban
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | waw |
| Glottolog | waiw1244 |
| ELP | |
Phonology
References
- Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
- Hawkins, Robert (1998). Wai Wai. Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum (eds.), Handbook of Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Vol. 4: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 25–224.
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External links
- Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Waiwai". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
- Waiwai Collection of Niels Fock from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, containing audio recordings of ceremonial chants and photographs made in the 1950s.
- Wai Wai (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
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