Mandawaca language

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.

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

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)


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