Mandawaca language

Mandahuaca
Mandahuaca
Mandawaka, Mawaca
Native to	Venezuela, Brazil
Extinct	by 1995
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Orinoco Mandahuaca; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mht
Glottolog	mand1448
ELP	Mandahuaca

Last updated April 25, 2026

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an extinct Arawakan language formerly of Venezuela and Brazil. The most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

Classification

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian,^[2] Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.^[3] According to a speaker of Baré (Barawana), Mandawaca was mutually intelligible with it.^[1]

References

1 2 Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (1995). Bare. Languages of the world Materials 100. München [i.e.] Unterschleißheim: LINCOM Europa. ISBN 978-3-89586-050-8.
↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
↑ Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (1995). Bare. Languages of the world Materials 100. München [i.e.] Unterschleißheim: LINCOM Europa. ISBN 978-3-89586-050-8.

[2] Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.

[3] Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.

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