Waurá language

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Waurá
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso
Ethnicity Wauja
Native speakers
320 (2006)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wau
Linguist list
qdv Waura–Mehináku
Glottolog waur1244[2]

Waurá (Wauja) is an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil. It is "partially intelligible" with Mehináku. The entire population speaks the language.[1]

References[edit]

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