Native to Colombia and Venezuela Native speakers 17,000 (2001–2002) Dialects Wirö (Maco)
Ature? | Ethnicity Piaroa people Language family Piaroa–Saliban
Piaroa Writing system Latin | |
Piaroa (also called Guagua ~ Kuakua ~ Quaqua, Adole ~ Ature, Wo’tiheh) is an indigenous language of Colombia and Venezuela, native to the Piaroa people.
A Wirö language (commonly called Maco) is sometimes listed separately, or left unclassified. It is very poorly attested, but the few words which are known are enough to show it is a dialect of Piaroa, or at least very closely related (Hammarström 2010).
References
Piaroa language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA