Mandawaca language

Arawakan language spoken in Venezuela
Mandahuaca
Mandawaka
Native toVenezuela
Native speakers
(3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)[1]
Language family
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Upper Amazon
      • Orinoco
        • Mandahuaca
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)
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