Warekena language

Guarequena
Guarequena
Warekena
Native to	Brazil, Venezuela
Native speakers	650 (2001–2006)
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Eastern Nawiki Guarequena; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gae
Glottolog	guar1293
ELP	Guarequena

Guarequena (Warekena) is an Arawakan language of Brazil and Venezuela. 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 Eastern Nawiki.

Personal pronouns in Warekena are formed by adding an emphatic suffix -ya to the cross-referencing personal prefixes.^[2]

References

^ Guarequena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Aikenvald, Alexandra Y. 1988. "Warekena". In Desmond C. Derbyshire & Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds.), Handbook of Amazonian languages, iv. 225–439. Berlin: Moutin de Gruyter. Cited in Bhat, D.N.S. 2004. Pronouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 25

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