Wanyam language

Wanyam
Native toBrazil
RegionRondônia
Extinctafter 1970s[1]
Chapacuran
  • Wari
    • Wanyam
Dialects
  • Abitana
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologwany1246

Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.

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]

References

  1. ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  2. ^ a b Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.


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