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Wainumá-Mariaté language
Extinct Arawakan language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ[1]) and Mariaté are an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language.
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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
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Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:[5]
- Spix and Martius in 1820
- Johann Natterer in 1832
- Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851[6]
A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.
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References
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