Huaorani language
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| Huaorani Huao Terero |
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| Spoken in: | Ecuador, Peru | |
| Region: | Oriente or Ecuadorian Amazon | |
| Total speakers: | 1,600-2,000 | |
| Language family: | language isolate Huaorani |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Ecuador: indigenous languages official in own territories | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mis | |
| ISO 639-3: | auc | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Huaorani language (also Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Waorani, Wao, Sabela, Ssabela, ; autonym: Huao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is an language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may live in Peru.
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[edit] Regional variation
Huaorani has 3 varieties:
- Tiguacuna (also known as Tiwakuna)
- Tuei (also known as Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi)
- Shiripuno
[edit] Genetic relations
Various hypothetical groupings have included Huaorani:
- Joseph Greenberg's Andean grouping
- Morris Swadesh's macro-Jíbaro
- Jorge Suárez's Hívaro-Kawapana
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Waorani language
- Proel: Lengua Sabela
[edit] Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
- Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
- Rival, Laura. Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador, Columbia University Press, 2002.
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