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.