Mandawaca language

Extinct Arawakan language formerly spoken in Venezuela From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an extinct Arawakan language formerly of Venezuela and Brazil. The most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

NativetoVenezuela, Brazil
Extinctby 1995[1]
Arawakan
ISO 639-3mht
Quick facts Mandahuaca, Native to ...
Mandahuaca
Mandawaka, Mawaca
Native toVenezuela, Brazil
Extinctby 1995[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3mht
Glottologmand1448
ELPMandahuaca
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Classification

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian,[2] Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.[3] According to a speaker of Baré (Barawana), Mandawaca was mutually intelligible with it.[1]

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