Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ
) and Mariaté are an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified
Arawakan language. Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).
Word lists
Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:
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Spix and
Martius in 1820
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Johann Natterer
Johann Natterer (9 November 1787 – 17 June 1843) was an Austrian naturalist and explorer.
Family and early life
Johann Natterer was born on 9 November 1787, the son of the animal-zoologist Joseph Natterer Sr. and Maria Anna Theresia Scho ...
in 1832
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Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851
[Wallace, Alfred Russel (1853). ''A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro 848-1852'. Londres ; Nova Iorque.]
A word list of Mariaté was recorded by
Spix and
Martius in 1820.
References
Indigenous languages of the South American Northern Foothills
Arawakan languages
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