Uarekena

E618341

Uarekena is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Warekena people in parts of Brazil and Venezuela.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Arekena 1

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
alternateName Arekena NERFINISHED
Uarekena do Rio Negro NERFINISHED
Warekena NERFINISHED
continent South America
countryRegion Amazonas state, Brazil NERFINISHED
Amazonas state, Venezuela NERFINISHED
culturalAssociation Warekena traditional knowledge
indigenous cosmology of the Rio Negro region
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Warekena NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode uare1244
hasGlottologName Uarekena NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code gae
hasMorphology complex prefix and suffix system
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonology contrastive nasalization
small phoneme inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity Warekena villages along the Xié River
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
languageTypology agglutinative language
region Rio Negro region NERFINISHED
relatedTo Baniwa language NERFINISHED
Tariana language NERFINISHED
Warekena of Xié language NERFINISHED
spokenBy Warekena people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
statusInBrazil minority language
statusInVenezuela minority language
subfamily Northern Arawakan NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to Portuguese
language shift to Spanish
usedBy indigenous communities along the Rio Negro
usedInDomain daily communication within communities
ritual practices
traditional oral narratives
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Warekena language hasAlternativeName Uarekena
this entity surface form: Arekena