| Barawana | |
| Also Known As: | Baré |
| Nativename: | Mitua |
| States: | Venezuela, Brazil |
| Speakers: | 240 |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Arawakan |
| Fam2: | Northern |
| Fam3: | Upper Amazon |
| Fam4: | Central (Orinoco) |
| Iso3: | bae |
| Linglist: | qth |
| Lingname: | (Guiano) |
| Linglist2: | qqd |
| Lingname2: | (Marawá) |
| Glotto: | bare1276 |
| Glottoname: | Baré |
| Glotto2: | guin1258 |
| Glottoname2: | Guinau |
| Glotto3: | mara1409 |
| Glottoname3: | Maragua |
Barawana (Baré) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and Brazil, where it is nearly extinct. It was spoken by the Baré people. Aikhenvald (1999) reports "just a few old speakers left" of Baré proper, and that the Guinau variety was extinct. Kaufman (1994) considers Baré proper, Guinau, and Marawá (currently extinct) to be distinct languages; Aikhenvald, dialects of a single languages. (Marawá is not the same language as Marawán.)
Baré is a generic name for a number of Arawakan languages in the area, including Mandahuaca, Guarequena, Baniwa, and Piapoco. Barawana is the language given this name in Kaufman, Aikhenvald, and Ethnologue. It is also known as Ibini (a typo for Ihini ~ Arihini?) and Mitua.
Vowels can come in three forms; oral, nasal, and voiceless:
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| aspirated | pronounced as /pʰ/ | pronounced as /tʰ/ | pronounced as /t͡ʃʰ/ | pronounced as /kʰ/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Sonorant | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||