Wainumá-Mariaté language

Extinct Arawakan language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ[1]) and Mariaté are dialects of an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language.

NativetoBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Extinctafter 1851
Arawakan
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Wainumá–Mariaté
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Extinctafter 1851
Arawakan
Dialects
  • Wainumá
  • Mariaté
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qtj Wainumá
 qtw Mariaté
Glottologuain1239
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Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch,[2] but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).[3] It is placed in the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).[4]

Word lists

Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:[5]

A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.

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Wainumá vocabulary[7]
Wainumá Gloss Wainumá Gloss
pipina abeas nioho, eroânyhênery avus
eidirikeno aegroto noiracká, tschaberaka uhny bibo
amáhrăĭ-ápe aër nucotanahbihta bellum genere
kési adeps mísare bonus, a, um
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