Warao language
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| Warao | |
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| Spoken in | Venezuela Guyana Suriname |
| Native speakers | 18,000+ (date missing) |
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| ISO 639-3 | wba |
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Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is a language isolate of the indigenous Warao people. It is the native language spoken by approximately 18,000 people inhabiting the Orinoco River delta in northeastern Venezuela as well as small populations of speakers in western Guyana and Suriname.[1] A connection to the extinct Timucua language of Florida has been proposed but is not accepted. It is claimed that the word order of Warao is object–subject–verb.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ "WARAO: a language of Venezuela", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 14th Edition, 2000
- ^ Andrés Romero-Figueroa, "OSV as the basic order in Warao", Lingua Volume 66, Issues 2-3, July 1985, Pages 115-134
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