Mandawaca language explained

Mandawaca language should not be confused with Baré language.

Mandahuaca
Nativename:Mandawaka
States:Venezuela
Speakers:3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa
Date:1975
Ref:e18
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Arawakan
Fam2:Northern
Fam3:Upper Amazon
Fam4:Orinoco
Iso3:mht
Glotto:mand1448
Glottorefname:Mandahuaca

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.