| Waiká | |
| Nativename: | Yąnomamɨ |
| States: | Brazil |
| Region: | Roraima, Amazonas |
| Ethnicity: | Yanomami |
| Speakers: | 6,000 |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Yanomam |
| Iso3: | wca |
| Glotto: | yano1262 |
| Glottorefname: | Yanomám |
| Map: | Yanomaman.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Yanomaman languages location |
Waiká, also Yanomám (or Yanomae, Yanomama, Yanomami),[1] is one of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people in Brazil. Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
The names Waika (Guaica) and Yanomami are shared with the Yanomamö language.
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
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| Plosive | plain | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |
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| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ |