Wanyam language

Wanyam
Wanyam
Region	Brazil
Extinct	a few families in the 1970s
Language family	Chapacuran Wari Wanyam; ;
Dialects	Abitana;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	wany1246

Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) was a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect.

Dialects[edit]

Dialects of Wanyam:^[2]

Cabishi (spurious)
Cujuna
Cumaná (Cutianá)
Matama (Matawa)
Urunamacan
Pawumwa (Abitana Wanyam)

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).^[2]

References[edit]

^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
^ ^a ^b Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

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[1] Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices

[Mason-1950-2] Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

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