Akawaio language

E220131
American indigenous language Cariban language indigenous language natural language

The Akawaio language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Akawaio people of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Akawaio language canonical 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language ⓘ
Cariban language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alternativeName Acawai ⓘ
Acawayo ⓘ
Akawaio ⓘ
surface form: Akawayo

Kapon ⓘ
Kapóng ⓘ
associatedPeople Akawaio people ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Ingarikó language ⓘ
Patamona language ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Brazil ⓘ
British Guiana ⓘ
surface form: Guyana

Venezuela ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Akawaio ⓘ
geographicDistribution Guiana Shield ⓘ
surface form: Guiana Shield region
glottocode akaw1239 ⓘ
glottologName Akawaio ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Ingarikó language ⓘ
Patamona language ⓘ
hasLinguisticCode Glottocode: akaw1239 ⓘ
ISO 639-3: ake ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ
ISO639-3Code ake ⓘ
languageBranch Northern Cariban ⓘ
languageFamily Carib ⓘ
surface form: Cariban
macroLanguageGroup Kapon languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Ingarikó language ⓘ
surface form: Arekuna (Ingarikó) language

Makushi language ⓘ
Patamona language ⓘ
partOfCulturalHeritageOf Akawaio people ⓘ
region Cuyuni-Mazaruni region ⓘ
Upper Mazaruni River region ⓘ
SOVOrderTendency yes ⓘ
spokenBy Akawaio people ⓘ
spokenIn Brazil ⓘ
British Guiana ⓘ
surface form: Guyana

Venezuela ⓘ
subfamily Venezuelan Carib ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
usedInEducation limited community-based education ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Carib languages → hasNotableLanguage → Akawaio language ⓘ
Pemon language → hasNeighboringLanguage → Akawaio language ⓘ
Patamona language → closelyRelatedTo → Akawaio language ⓘ