Piaroa language
| Piaroa | |
|---|---|
| De'aruwa | |
| Native to | Colombia and Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | Piaroa people |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2001–2002)[1] |
|
Piaroa–Saliban
| |
| Dialects |
Wirö (Maco)
Ature?
|
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: pid – Piaroa wpc – Wirö (Maco) |
| Glottolog |
maco1238 (Wirö + Piaroa)[2]piar1243 (Piaroa)[3] |
Piaroa (also called Guagua ~ Kuakua ~ Quaqua, Adole ~ Ature, Wo’tiheh) is an indigenous language of Colombia and Venezuela, native to the Piaroa people.
A Wirö language (commonly called Maco) is sometimes listed separately, or left unclassified. It is very poorly attested, but the few words which are known are enough to show it is a dialect of Piaroa, or at least very closely related (Hammarström 2010).[4]
References
- ↑ Piaroa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Wirö (Maco) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wirö + Piaroa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Piaroa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183