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Mandahuaca
Mandawaka
Native to Venezuela
Native speakers
(3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975) [1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mht
Glottolog mand1448
ELP Mandahuaca

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.

References

  1. ^ Mandahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)