Wanyam language explained

Wanyam
Region:	Brazil
Extinct:	a few families in the 1970s^[1]
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Chapacuran
Fam2:	Wari
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	wany1246
Glottorefname:	Wanyam
Dia1:	Abitana

Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) was a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect.

Dialects

Dialects of Wanyam:^[2]

• Cabishi (spurious)
• Cujuna
• Cumaná (Cutianá)
• Matama (Matawa)
• Urunamacan
• Pawumwa (Abitana Wanyam)

Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a Huanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).^[2]

Notes and References

1. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
2. Book: Mason, John Alden . John Alden Mason

   . John Alden Mason . 1950 . The languages of South America . Julian . Steward . Handbook of South American Indians . 6 . 157–317 . Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 . Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.