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Warekena language

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Native to
  
Brazil, Venezuela

ISO 639-3
  
gae

Native speakers
  
650 (2001–2006)

Glottolog
  
guar1293

Language family
  
Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Eastern Nawiki Guarequena

Guarequena (Warekena) is an Arawakan language of Brazil and Venezuela. 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 Eastern Nawiki.

Personal pronouns in Warekena are formed by adding an emphatic suffix -ya to the cross-referencing personal prefixes.

References

Warekena language Wikipedia