Abane language

Abane
Baniwa of Guainia
Native to	Venezuela
Region	Colombian border
Native speakers	200? (1999)[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazonian Orinoco Yavitero languages Abane
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bvv
Glottolog	bani1254[2]

Abane (Avane), or Baniwa of Guainia, is an Arawakan language of Venezuela with a few speakers in Brazil.

Aikhenvald counts ≈ 200 speakers while Ethnologue reports the language is extinct; Ethnologue counts Xie Warekena in Brazil as a dialect of Guarequena rather than of Abane as in Aikhenvald, but this only amounts to ten speakers.

Name

Abane is one of several languages in the region called Baniwa. Ethnologue (2015) distinguishes "Baniva" for the Baniwa of Guainia and "Baniwa" for the Baniwa of Içana, but they are merely spelling variants, and either spelling may be used for either language.

References

1. Aikhenvald (1999)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Baniva". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.