Warekena language
Arawakan language spoken in Brazil and Venezuela / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Baré language or Warekena Velha language.
Warekena (Guarequena), or more precisely Warekena of Xié, is an Arawakan language of Brazil and of Maroa Municipality in Venezuela, spoken near the Guainia River. It is one of several languages which go by the generic name Baré and Baniwa/Baniva – in this case, distinguished as Baniva de Maroa or Baniva de Guainía.
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Warekena | |
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Baniwa of Maroa Baniwa of Guainía | |
Guarequena | |
Native to | Brazil, Venezuela |
Native speakers | 650 (2001–2006)[1] ca. 200 (1999)[2] |
Arawakan
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ISO 639-3 | gae |
Glottolog | guar1293 |
ELP | Guarequena |
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There may be 10 speakers in Brazil and 200 in Venezuela, per Aikhenvald (1999).
Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Eastern Nawiki.
Personal pronouns in Warekena are formed by adding an emphatic suffix -ya to the cross-referencing personal prefixes.[3]