Baniva
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Baniva is an alternate name for the Baniwa language, an Arawakan language spoken by Indigenous communities in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternateName | Baniwa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tariana language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warekena language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryStatusInBrazil | Indigenous language ⓘ |
| countryStatusInColombia | Indigenous language ⓘ |
| countryStatusInVenezuela | Indigenous language ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
descriptive grammars of Baniwa of Içana
ⓘ
ethnolinguistic studies of the Rio Negro region ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | Arawakan > Northern Arawakan > Upper Rio Negro group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Baniwa of Içana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curripaco NERFINISHED ⓘ Katapolitana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
polysynthetic morphology
ⓘ
prefixing and suffixing verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive nasalization ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | basic SOV word order ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Upper Rio Negro linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | bwi ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | linguistic surveys of the northwest Amazon ⓘ |
| regionDetail |
Içana River region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rio Negro basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Baniwa people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indigenous communities of the northwest Amazon ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Venezuela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | northwest Amazon ⓘ |
| subfamily | Northern Arawakan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication in some communities
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.