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.

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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

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