Guajá | |
Nativename: | Awá |
States: | Brazil |
Region: | Maranhão |
Ethnicity: | Awá-Guajá |
Speakers: | 335 |
Date: | 2023 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Tupian |
Fam2: | Tupi–Guaraní |
Fam3: | Wayampí |
Iso3: | gvj |
Glotto: | guaj1256 |
Glottorefname: | Guajá |
Guajá, or Awá (also Ayaya, Guaxare, Wazaizara), is a geographically isolated Tupi–Guarani language spoken in Brazil. The extinct 'Anambé' recorded by Ehrenreich may have been a distinct language.[1]
. Lyle Campbell . Grondona . Verónica . Campbell . Lyle . 2012 . The Indigenous Languages of South America . Classification of the indigenous languages of South America . The World of Linguistics . 2 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 59-166 . 9783110255133.