Wainumá-Mariaté language
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Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ) and Mariaté are dialects of an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language.
Classification
Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999). It is placed in the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).
Word lists
Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:
- Spix and Martius in 1820
- Johann Natterer in 1832
- Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851
A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.
| Wainumá | Gloss | Wainumá | Gloss |
|---|---|---|---|
| pipina | abeas | nioho, eroânyhênery | avus |
| eidirikeno | aegroto | noiracká, tschaberaka uhny | bibo |
| amáhrăĭ-ápe | aër | nucotanahbihta | bellum genere |
| kési | adeps | mísare | bonus, a, um |