Waraikú language

Arawakan language of Brazil
Waraikú
Araikú
Native toBrazil
RegionSolimões and Jutaí rivers
Eraattested 1867[1]
Language family
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Upper Amazonian
      • (unclassified)
        • Waraikú
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologarai1239

Waraikú (Araikú) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. The only record of this language is in a wordlist published in 1867 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Both Kaufman (1994) and Aikhenvald (1999)[2] leave it unclassified within Northern Arawakan.

References

  1. ^ von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. ISBN 9781012121358.
  2. ^ Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (2006). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed 1st pbk. version ed.). Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57893-6.
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