Waiwai (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern

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, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern

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and

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Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

* /o/ can be heard as �when 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 Collection
of Niels Fock from the

Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository housed in LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin. AILLA is a digital language archive dedicated to the digi ...

, 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 ...

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