Wanyam language

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.

Wanyam
Wanham
Native to	Brazil
Region	Rondônia
Ethnicity	Wanám
Extinct	after 1970s[1]
Language family	Chapacuran Wari Wanyam
Dialects	Abitana
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	wany1246

Dialects

Dialects of Wanyam:^[2]

• Cabishi (spurious)
• Cujuna
• Cumaná (Cutianá)
• Matama (Matawa)
• Urunamacan
• Pawumwa (Abitana Wanyam)

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).^[2]