Waiwai language

Waiwai
Native to Brazil, Guyana
Ethnicity Wai-Wai
Native speakers
 unknown (2,200 cited 1990–2006)[1]
Cariban

  • Parukotoan

    • Waiwai languages
      • Waiwai
Dialects
Katawian (Tunayana)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 waw
Glottolog waiw1244[2]

Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/[3] (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana.

References

  1. ↑ Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Waiwai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh