Mandawaca language

Not to be confused with Baré language.

Mandahuaca
Mandawaka
Native to	Venezuela
Native speakers	(3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)^[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Orinoco Mandahuaca
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mht`
Glottolog	`mand1448`^[2]

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.

References

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

Arawakan (Maipurean) languages

Northern

Caribbean

Palikuran

Wapishanan

Upper Amazon

Western Nawiki	Achawa Amarizana Anauyá Cabiyari (?) Cabre (?) Guarú Kawishana Mandawaca Mariaté Pasé Piapoco Resígaro (?) Warekena Waraikú (?) Wainumá Wiriná (?) Yabaâna (?) Yucuna Yumana

Eastern Nawiki	Baniwa Kurripako Tariana

Central Upper Amazon	Baré Baniwa of Guainia Guinao Maipure Marawá Yavitero

Manao	Kariaí Manao Shiriana (?)

Southern

Western	Chamicuro Yanesha'

Central Maipurean	Agavotaguerra (?) Custenau Paresí Saraveca Waura–Mehináku Yawalapití

Piro	Apurinã Iñapari Mashco Piro Piro Kanamaré

Bolivia–Parana	Baure Chané Enawené-Nawé (?) Lapachu Moxos Pauna Terêna

Campa	Asháninka Ashéninga Axininca Caquinte Machiguenga Nomatsiguenga Pucapucari

Unclassified

Macro-Arawakan

Languages of Venezuela

Official language	Spanish

Indigenous languages	Arutani Ayoman Barí Betoi Caquetio Carib Cuiba Gayon Guahibo Japreria Jirajara Kapóng Macushi Maku-Auari Mandawaca Mapoyo-Yabarana Mucuchí Nheengatu Ninam Panare Paraujano Pemon Piapoco Sapé Sikiana Tamanaku Timote Uwa Warao Warekena Wayuu Yaruro Ye'kuana Yukpa

Dialects of Spanish	Llanero Maracucho

Sign languages	Venezuelan Sign Language

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