Waraikú language

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Waraikú
Araikú
Native to Brazil
Region Solimões and Jutaí rivers
Eraattested 1867 [1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qm3
Glottolog arai1239

Waraikú (Araikú) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. The only record of this language is in a wordlist published in 1867 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Both Kaufman (1994)[ full citation needed ] and Aikhenvald (1999) [2] leave it unclassified within Northern Arawakan.

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References

  1. von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. ISBN   9781012121358.
  2. Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (2006). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed 1st pbk. version ed.). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-57893-6.