Wanyam language
Extinct Chapacuran language of Brazil
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Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.[3] As of 1997, one speaker, Firmino Miguelem, was known of the Miguelenho (Uomo) variety.[1]
Dialects
Dialects of Wanyam:[4]
- Cabishi (ambiguous name, not to be confused with unclassified Cabixi-Natterer)
- Cujuna
- Cumaná (Cutianá)
- Matama (Matawa)
- Urunamacan
- Pawumwa (Abitana-Wanyam)[5]
Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a Huanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua, Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).[4]
Notes
- The ISO 639 code categorized Cabishi as a "Chapacura-Wanham" language; i.e. a Chapacuran language.
