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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common spellings of Warao are Waroa, Guarauno, Guarao, and Warrau. The term Warao translates as "the boat people", after the Warao's lifelong and intimate...
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Warao may refer to: Warao people Warao language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Warao. If an internal link led you here...
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Pumé (4.061) Sapé (25) (arutani-sapé languages ?) Uruak (39) (arutani-sapé languages ?) Warao (18.696): This language is mainly spoken in the Delta of Orinoco...
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Saona Island (category CS1 European Spanish-language sources (es-es))
comparing it with sa-ona 'full of bats' in the purportedly related Warao language of the Orinoco Delta.; However, it is widely accepted that Columbus...
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the Warao language, and further suggest a possible connection with the Macoris language of Hispaniola (see Waroid languages). Pre-Arawakan languages of...
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Recognition of same-sex unions in Venezuela (category Articles containing Warao-language text)
introduced a same-sex marriage bill to the National Assembly. The indigenous Warao people, who inhabit the Orinoco Delta region, recognize two-spirit individuals...
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Delta Amacuro (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text)
be less. Humboldt said that the Guaiqueris considered their language to be related to Warao. The territory became part of the Guayana Province when Venezuela...
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A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa...
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Gone with the River (category Warao-language films)
Mario Crespo. The film is spoken in Warao. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it...
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the Guato, Kawapana, Nambikwara, Taruma, Warao, Arawak, Bororo, Jeoromitxi, Karaja, Rikbaktsa, and Tupi language families due to contact. Extensive lexical...
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Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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Haina River (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
haina, comparing it with ha-ina 'many nets' in the purportedly related Warao language of the Orinoco Delta. List of rivers of the Dominican Republic "Ríos...
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with the Sape, Arutani, and Warao languages, as well as the Saliba-Hodi, Tikuna-Yuri, Katukina-Katawixi, and Arawa language families due to contact. The...
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it with baho-ro-eku 'within the jungle' in the purportedly related Warao language of the Orinoco Delta. The Sierra de Bahoruco are noted for the blue...
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mountainous." This makes it unlikely that the language is Arawakan or Cariban,[or Warao?] as languages of those families have simple V and CV syllable...
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confluences) Urheimat of other language families:: 821 Pre-Proto-Chibchan: Lower Magdalena River Valley Pre-Proto-Warao: Orinoco Delta Proto-Duho: Upper...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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with the Máku, Sape, Warao, Tikuna-Yuri, and Tukano language families due to contact. Lexical similarities with Tucanoan languages are mostly cultural...
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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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The languages of the Caribbean reflect the region's diverse history and culture. There are six official languages spoken in the Caribbean: Spanish (official...
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Granberry and Vescelius (2004) linking Warao of Venezuela with the extinct Macoris and Guanahatabey languages of the Greater Antilles. Granberry and Vescelius...
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English is the official language of Guyana, which is the only South American country with English as the official language. Guyanese Creole (an English-based...
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Mazorij) was the language of the northern coast of what is today the Dominican Republic. Spanish accounts only refer to three languages on the island: Taíno...
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Demographics of Guyana (section Language)
Akawaio, the Arecuna, the Patamona, the Wapixana, the Macushi, and the Warao. The two largest groups, the Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese, have experienced...
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(Farautes), and Tiuitiuas (Tibitíbis) that spoke Warao or languages closely related to modern Warao. Other extinct groups include:: 1243 Aricari and...
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Cunza–Kapixana, Betoi, Itonama, and Warao. Páez language Barbacoan languages Páez people Macro-Paesan languages Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2015. Semejanzas léxicas...
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Warao origin, as the Warao word for ‘gold’ is naséi simo ('yellow pebble'). However, trade words like 'gold' are readily borrowed. Waroid languages Bartolomé...
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similarities with the Warao, Chibchan, Puinave-Kak, Jirajara, Tukano (especially Cubeo and Wanano), Arutani, and Máku language families due to contact...
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Venezuelan crisis of 1895 Visa policy of Guyana Waiwai language Wai-Wai people Warao language Warao people Water supply and sanitation in Guyana Western...
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