Waiwai language

Waiwai
Native to	Brazil, Guyana
Ethnicity	Wai-Wai
Native speakers	unknown (2,200 cited 1990–2006)[1]
Language family	Cariban Parukotoan Waiwai languages Waiwai
Dialects	Katawian (Tunayana) Karahawyana
Language codes
ISO 639-3	waw
Glottolog	waiw1244[2]

Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/^[3] (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana.

References

1. Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Waiwai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh