Wai-Wai (other)
Wai-Wai may refer to: *Wai-wai people, an ethnic group in Brazil and Guyana **Waiwai language, the language of this group *Wai Wai (food brand), a noodle dish * WaiWai, a discontinued column published in the Mainichi Daily News The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English language news website called ''The Mainichi'' (previ ...

Wai-wai People
The Wai-wai (also written Waiwai or Wai Wai) are a Carib-speaking Indigenous people of Guyana and northern Brazil. Their society consists of different lowland forest peoples who have maintained much of their cultural identity with the exception of Christianity which was introduced to them in the late 1950s. The Umana Yana in Georgetown, Guyana, takes its name from the Wai-Wai for "meeting place". Early contact The explorer, Sir Robert Schomburgk, may have been the first western to have contact with the Wai-Wai in December 1837. He found one village on a tributary of the Essequebo river, along with two others on the Mapuera River in Brazil. Schomburgk describes the Wai-Wai as: :"''Of medium height, their skin lighter than that of Tarumas, in their general appearance and language they resemble the Makuskis a good deal. The Woyawais are great hunters and celebrated for their dogs. In appearance they are generally dirty.''" During the early 20th century, some of the Wai-Wai in Braz ...
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Waiwai Language
Waiwai (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana and Suriname. Phonology Consonants Vowels * /o/ can be heard as Œwhen following palatal consonants /tʃ, ʃ/. * /a/ can be heard as ¦when preceded by sounds /j, tʃ/, and followed by sounds /w, m, s/. References External links *Waiwai Collectionof Niels Fock from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, containing audio recordings of ceremonial chants and photographs made in the 1950s.Wai Wai(Intercontinental Dictionary Series The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (commonly abbreviated as IDS) is a large database of topical vocabulary lists in various world languages. The general editor of the database is Bernard Comrie of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary An ...) Languages of Brazil Cariban languages Languages of Guyana {{IndigenousAmerican-lang-stub ...
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Wai Wai (food Brand)
Wai Wai ( th, ไวไว, ) is a brand of instant noodles originating in Thailand. The brand has been produced in Thailand since 1972 by Thai Preserved Food Factory Co., Ltd. History Thai Preserved Food Factory co. ltd was founded in Thailand in 1972 by Surin Napapruekchat and seven other families. The company's managing director since 1998 has been Pricha Napapruekchat, the eldest son of the founder. Operations Thailand TPFF has factories on 99 rai in ''tambons'' Om Yai and Rai Khing in the Sam Phran District of Nakhon Pathom Province and will build another in Ratchaburi. TPFF posted revenues of 6.54 billion baht The baht (; th, บาท, ; sign: ฿; code: THB) is the official currency of Thailand. It is divided into 100 ''satang'' (, ). The issuance of currency is the responsibility of the Bank of Thailand. SWIFT ranked the Thai baht as the 10th-m ... in 2017 and expects that number to rise to 10 billion baht within the next five to ten years. The company ant ...
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