Wanyam language

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Wanyam
Wanham
Native toBrazil
RegionRondônia
EthnicityWanám
Extinctafter 1997[1]
Chapacuran
  • Wari
    • Wanyam
Dialects
  • Abitana
Language codes
ISO 639-3xbx Kabixi (retired)[a]
Glottologwany1246

Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.[2]

Dialects

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Dialects of Wanyam:[3]

  • Cabishi (ambiguous name, not to be confused with unclassified Cabixi-Natterer)
  • Cujuna
  • Cumaná (Cutianá)
  • Matama (Matawa)
  • Urunamacan
  • Pawumwa (Abitana-Wanyam)[4]

Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a Huanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua, Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ The ISO 639 code categorized Cabishi as a "Chapacura-Wanham" language; i.e. a Chapacuran language.

References

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  1. ^ Angenot, Geralda de Lima Vitor (2013-08-23). "FONOTÁTICA E FONOLOGIA DO LEXEMA PROTOCHAPAKURA". REVISTA ELETRÔNICA LÍNGUA VIVA (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 (1). ISSN 2237-9800.
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald (September 2015). "Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices". Language. 91 (3): s1 – s188. doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0049. ISSN 1535-0665.
  3. ^ a b Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
  4. ^ Chamberlain, Alexander F. (1912). "The Linguistic Position of the Pawumwa Indians of South America". American Anthropologist. 14 (4): 632–635. ISSN 0002-7294.
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