Ye'kuana language

Maquiritari
Dekwana
Native to	Venezuela
Ethnicity	Ye'kuana
Native speakers	6,000 (2000 – 2001 census)^[1]
Language family	Cariban Guianan Carib Maquiritari
Dialects	Wayumara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mch`
Glottolog	`maqu1239`^[2]

Maquiritari, AKA Dekwana or Ye'kuana, is a Cariban language of Venezuela, with a few hundred speakers in Brazil.

References

↑ Maquiritari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maquiritari–Wayumara". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Cariban languages

Parukotoan

Pekodian

Venezuelan Carib

Pemóng–Panare	Kapóng Makushi Panare Pemón

Mapoyo–Tamanaku	Kumaná Mapoyo-Yawarana Tamanaku

Guianan Carib

Taranoan	Akuriyo Karihona Tiriyo

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages

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