Waiwai language

Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/[3] (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 toBrazil, Guyana
EthnicityWai-Wai
Native speakers
(2,200 cited 1990–2006)[1]
Cariban
  • Parukotoan
    • Waiwai languages
      • Waiwai
Dialects
  • Katawian (Tunayana)
  • Karahawyana
Language codes
ISO 639-3waw
Glottologwaiw1244
ELPWaiwai[2]

References
  1. Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Waiwai.
  3. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
  • 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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