Native to Venezuela Glottolog mand1448 | ISO 639-3 mht | |
Native speakers (3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa cited 1975) Language family Arawakan
Northern
Upper Amazon
Orinoco
Mandahuaca | ||
Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. 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 Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.
References
Mandawaca language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA