Guajá language

Guajá
Awá
Native to Brazil
Region Maranhão
Ethnicity Awá-Guajá
Native speakers
280 (2006)[1]
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gvj
Glottolog guaj1256[2]

Guajá, or Awá (also Ayaya, Guaxare, Wazaizara), is an isolated Tupi–Guarani language spoken in Brazil.

References

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


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