Ye'kuana language

Maquiritari
Dekwana
Native to Venezuela
Ethnicity Ye'kuana
Native speakers
6,000 (2000 – 2001 census)[1]
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

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


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