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    Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is the native language of the Warao people. A language isolate, it is spoken by about 33,000 people primarily...
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    Wai Wai, Macushi, Patamona, Lokono, Kalina, Wapishana, Pemon, Akawaio and Warao. Historically dominated by the Lokono and Kalina tribes, Guyana was colonised...
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    Sapé (25) (arutani-sapé languages ?) Uruak (39) (arutani-sapé languages ?) Warao (18.696): This language is mainly spoken in the Delta of Orinoco area and...
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  • grammatical gender) Isolates Ainu Basque Chimariko Haida Nivkh Purépecha Warao Zuni Indo-European Afrikaans (Afrikaans has three gendered pronouns, but...
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    are lexical similarities with the Guato, Kawapana, Nambikwara, Taruma, Warao, Arawak, Bororo, Jeoromitxi, Karaja, Rikbaktsa, and Tupi language families...
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    families:: 821  Pre-Proto-Chibchan: Lower Magdalena River Valley Pre-Proto-Warao: Orinoco Delta Proto-Duho: Upper Inírida, Upper Vaupés, and Upper Apaporis...
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  • Suggested genetic relations involving Máku include: with Arawakan with Warao within a Kalianan grouping with Arutani–Sape (a.k.a. Makú) within a Macro-Puinavean...
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    indigenous people lived in the inland rainforest, such as the Akurio, Trió, Warao, and Wayana. Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English...
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    linguistic area, consisting of Arawakan, Cariban, Guamo, Otomaco, Yaruro, and Warao, is characterized by VO word order (instead of SOV), and is described by...
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    2% answered "other races". Among Indigenous people, 58% were Wayúu, 7% Warao, 5% Kariña, 4% Pemón, 3% Piaroa, 3% Jivi, 3% Añu, 3% Cumanágoto, 2% Yukpa...
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    language in most of the smaller Caribbean islands and is also the unofficial lingua franca of tourism, the dominant industry in the Caribbean region. In the...
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  • Curripaco and Piapoco. Guyana / Suriname: Arawak. Guyana / Venezuela / Warao, Akawaio, Pemon and Arawak. Suriname / French Guiana: Wayana, Ndyuka and...
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    Pernambuco) † Urarina (also known as Shimacu, Itukale, Shimaku) Vilela Wakona † Warao (Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela) (also known as Guarao) Witotoan (6) (also known...
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    Braz Bomfim & Francisco Vanderlei F. da Costa (orgs), Revitalização de língua indígena e educação escolar indígena inclusiva (Salvador: Egba, 2014, p...
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  • OVS Language". Lingua. 75 (4): 289–324. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(88)90008-3. Merlan, Francesca (1982). Mangarayi. North-Holland: Lingua Descriptive Studies...
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    Kallawaya) Nheengatú or Lingua Geral Amazonica ("Lingua Boa," Lingua Brasílica, Lingua Geral do Norte) Lingua Geral do Sul or Lingua Geral Paulista (Tupí...
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  • branch of Tupí-Guaranían Língua Geral Amazônica (Língua Geral, Nheengatú, Tapïhïya, Tupi moderno) Língua Geral Paulista (Língua Geral, Tupí) Tupí (Tupi...
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  • "Verb-second, particles, and flexible verb-initial orders". Lingua. 120 (2): 303–314. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.10.006. Dryer, Matthew S. (2000). "Word Order"...
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