Guajá | |
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Awá | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Maranhão |
Ethnicity | Awá-Guajá |
Native speakers | 335 (2023)[1] |
Tupian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gvj |
Glottolog | guaj1256 |
ELP | Guajá |
Guajá, or Awá (also Ayaya, Guaxare, Wazaizara), is a geographically isolated Tupi–Guarani language spoken in Brazil. The extinct 'Anambé' recorded by Ehrenreich may have been a distinct language.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Guajá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 9783110255133.