Yanomamö language

Yanomamö
Yąnomamɨ
Native to Venezuela, Brazil
Region OrinocoMavaca; Amazonas
Ethnicity Yanomami
Native speakers
20,000 (2000–2006)[1]
Yanomam
  • Yanomamö
Dialects
  • Cobari (Kobali)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 guu
Glottolog yano1261[2]

Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.

References

  1. Yanomamö at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yanomamö". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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