Mandawaca language
(Redirected from Mandauaca language)
| Mandahuaca | |
|---|---|
| Mandawaka | |
| Native to | Venezuela |
Native speakers | (3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975)[1] |
Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mht |
| Glottolog | mand1448 |
| ELP | Mandahuaca |
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
[edit]- ^ Mandahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)