Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an
Arawakan language
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient Indigenous peoples in South America. Branch ...
of
Venezuela
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and formerly of
Brazil
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. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name
Baré.
Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.
References
Languages of Venezuela
Arawakan languages
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