Huaorani language

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Huaorani Huao Terero
Spoken in:	Ecuador, Peru
Region:	Oriente or Ecuadorian Amazon
Total speakers:	1,600-2,000
Language family:	language isolate  Huaorani
Official status
Official language of:	Ecuador: indigenous languages official in own territories
Regulated by:	no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	mis
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	auc
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The Huaorani language (also Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Waorani, Wao, Sabela, Ssabela, ; autonym: Huao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is an language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may live in Peru.

Contents 1 Regional variation 2 Genetic relations 3 See also 4 External links 5 Bibliography

[edit] Regional variation

Huaorani has 3 varieties:

1. Tiguacuna (also known as Tiwakuna)
2. Tuei (also known as Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi)
3. Shiripuno

[edit] Genetic relations

Various hypothetical groupings have included Huaorani:

• Joseph Greenberg's Andean grouping
• Morris Swadesh's macro-Jíbaro
• Jorge Suárez's Hívaro-Kawapana

[edit] See also

• Huaorani

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue: Waorani language
• Proel: Lengua Sabela

[edit] Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
• Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
• Rival, Laura. Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador, Columbia University Press, 2002.