Mandawaca language

Mandahuaca
Mandawaka
Native to Venezuela
Native speakers
unknown (3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mht
Glottolog mand1448[2]

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)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mandahuaca". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.