Mehinaku language

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Mehináku
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso
Ethnicity Mehinako
Native speakers
230 (2006)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mmh
Linguist list
qdv Waura–Mehináku
Glottolog mehi1240[2]

Mehináku (Meinaku) is an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil. It has a dialect Waurá-kumá that is "somewhat intelligible" with Waurá due to influence from this language.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Mehináku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mehináku". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.