Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and...

northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Arawakan language family. The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling...

attested Arawakan languages seems to be the Wayuu language, spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. Scholars have suggested that the Wayuu are descended from...

settlement as the village of Riohacha, as a result of constant attacks by the Wayuu people. In 1544, it was moved to the site of the present-day city. In 1871...

Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. In the late 1960s, Zaida (Natalia Reyes), a young Wayuu woman, comes...

and Venezuela. Other uses include: Wayuu language or Wayuunaiki, the Arawakan language spoken by Wayuu people Wayuu: La niña de Maracaibo, a 2012 Venezuelan...

speak other language as their mother tongue (main languages: Chinese 400,000, Portuguese 254,000, Wayuu 199,000, Arabic 110,000) Quispe Fernández, Ezio...

Chile; Wayuu in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela; and Mapudungun in small pockets of southern Chile and Argentina. In Bolivia, three languages—Quechua...

responds to questions asked by Visitación and Cataure in the Guajiro or Wayuu language. She falls in love with and marries her adoptive brother José Arcadio...

Península de La Guajira, also spelled Goajira, mainly in colonial period texts, Wayuu: Woumainpa’a) is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela...

Maracaibo (/ˌmærəˈkaɪboʊ/ MARR-ə-KY-boh, Spanish: [maɾaˈkajβo] ; Wayuu: Marakaaya) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western...

community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...

are the most spoken languages in Venezuela after the official language of Spanish. Wayuu is the most spoken indigenous language with 294,000 speakers...

Riohacha (Spanish pronunciation: [rjoˈa.tʃa]; Wayuu: Süchiimma) is a city in the Riohacha Municipality in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia by...

alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

Barquisimeto (Spanish pronunciation: [baɾkisiˈmeto]; Wayuu: Watkisimeeta) is a city in Venezuela. Barquisimeto is located in the Central-Western Region...

Maicao (Wayuu: mai-ka-u) is a city and municipality in the Department of La Guajira, northern Republic of Colombia. It is located 76 km from Riohacha...

or high central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

following subclassification: Caribbean Arawakan Taíno Guajiro (Wahiro) Wayuu (Guajiro, Wahiro) Paraujano (Parauhano, Añun) † Arawák (Lokono) Iñeri (Inyeri)...

phonetics at University College London. It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, and extend SAMPA to cover the entire range of characters...

leader Rafael Uribe Uribe, prior to this the village was named Chitki in Wayuu language. The main plaza was created and named after Francisco de Paula Santander...

Cerrejón". The species epithet refers to the Wayuu language, called "Wayuunaiki" in its own language, of the Wayuu people, inhabiting the La Guajira desert...

researcher, linguist and poet of Wayuu origin. He is considered one of the most important writers in the Wayuu language. Paz Ipuana worked in the Normal...

vernacular. The Somali name is 'Garan-waa' which means 'the unknown'. In the Wayuu language, spoken on the La Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and Venezuela...

Wayuu: la niña de Maracaibo (English: Wayuu: The Girl from Maracaibo) is a 2012 Venezuelan crime film directed by Miguel Curiel and starring Daniel Alvarado...

establecidos en la ley producirán los mismos efectos que el matrimonio; in Wayuu: Aa'inmajünajatü sukua'ipa tü kawayuusekaa süka sukua'ipa alijuna, jee müsüja'a...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

and Ikun. It was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated. The film follows...

newspaper from Venezuela, published in Spanish and Wayuu, with an emphasis on news related to the Wayuu people and other aboriginal peoples of Venezuela...

survival, and the journey back home. More than 70% of the language used in the film is indigenous Wayuu. Carreño, Reyna (11 September 2011). "Un espejo entre...