Wajumará language

Wayumara
Wajumará
Native toBrazil
RegionRoraima
Extinct(date missing)
Cariban
  • Guianan
    • Makiritare
      • Wayumara
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qc7
Glottologwayu1242

Wayumara is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Makiritare branch as a close relative of Ye'kuana, but his classification is outdated. Glottolog groups the language in the Guianan Carib branch, following Girard (1971), in a subgroup with Ye'kuana.

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