Guarauno

E950029

Guarauno is an alternative name for the Warao language spoken by the Warao people of the Orinoco Delta region in Venezuela and neighboring areas.

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Label Occurrences
Guarauno canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Warao language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Warao NERFINISHED
associatedRegion Orinoco Delta wetlands NERFINISHED
associatedRiver Orinoco River NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroArea South America NERFINISHED
country Venezuela
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Warao people NERFINISHED
glottocode wara1303
hasAlternativeName Guarao NERFINISHED
Warau NERFINISHED
Warrau NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeSpelling Guaraúna NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasBiblePortionsTranslated yes
hasDialects various regional dialects
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts yes
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars and dictionaries exist
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasOrthographyStandardized partially
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between oral and nasal vowels
hasSpeakerCommunityType riverine and deltaic communities
influencedBy Spanish
ISO639-3 wba
languageFamily language isolate
linguisticClassificationStatus unclassified beyond being a language isolate
minorityLanguageIn Guyana NERFINISHED
Suriname NERFINISHED
neighboringMajorLanguage Spanish NERFINISHED
primaryCountryOfUse Venezuela NERFINISHED
region Orinoco Delta region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Warao people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Delta Amacuro NERFINISHED
Guyana NERFINISHED
Orinoco Delta NERFINISHED
Suriname NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
northeastern Venezuela
usedAlongside Spanish in bilingual communities
usedFor daily communication among Warao people
ritual and ceremonial contexts
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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