Wainumá-Mariaté language explained

Wainumá-Mariaté
Extinct:	?
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Arawakan
Fam2:	Northern
Fam3:	Upper Amazonian
Fam4:	(unclassified)
Iso3:	none
Linglist:	qtj
Linglist2:	qtw
Glotto:	uain1239
Glottorefname:	Uainuma-Mariate

Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ^[1]) and Mariaté are an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).

Word lists

Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:^[2]

• Spix and Martius in 1820
• Johann Natterer in 1832
• Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851^[3]

A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.

Notes and References

1. Book: Ramirez, Henri . Henri Ramirez . 2020 . Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados . 3 . 1 . Curitiba . Editora CRV . 978-65-251-0234-4 . 10.24824/978652510234.4.
2. Book: Ramirez, Henri . Henri Ramirez . 2020 . Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados . 4 . 1 . Curitiba . Editora CRV . 978-65-251-0231-3 . 10.24824/978652510231.3.
3. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1853). A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro [1848-1852]. Londres ; Nova Iorque.