Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ) and Mariaté are an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified

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 ...

. 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: *

Spix Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German natural history, biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. ...

and Martius in 1820 *

Johann Natterer Johann Natterer (9 November 1787 – 17 June 1843) was an Austrian natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer. He was the son of royal falconer Joseph Natterer and along with his brother Joseph Natterer (1786–1852) took a keen i ...

in 1832 *

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 pap ...

in 1851Wallace, 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

and Martius in 1820.

References

Indigenous languages of the South American Northern Foothills Arawakan languages {{Arawakan-lang-stub