Native to Venezuela Native speakers 200? (1999) Glottolog bani1254 | Region Colombian border ISO 639-3 bvv | |
Language family Arawakan
Northern
Upper Amazonian
Orinoco
Yavitero languages
Abane | ||
Abane (Avane), or Baniwa of Guainia, is an Arawakan language of Venezuela with a few speakers in Brazil.
Aikhenvald counts ≈ 200 speakers while Ethnologue reports the language is extinct; Ethnologue counts Xie Warekena in Brazil as a dialect of Guarequena rather than of Abane as in Aikhenvald, but this only amounts to ten speakers.
Name
Abane is one of several languages in the region called Baniwa. Ethnologue (2015) distinguishes "Baniva" for the Baniwa of Guainia and "Baniwa" for the Baniwa of Içana, but they are merely spelling variants, and either spelling may be used for either language.
References
Abane language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA