Wanyam language

Wanyam
Wanyam
Wanham
Native to	Brazil
Region	Rondônia
Ethnicity	Wanám
Extinct	after 1997, with the death of Firmino Miguelem
Language family	Chapacuran Wari Wanyam; ;
Dialects	Abitana; Cujuna; Cabixi; Mataua; Cumaná; Urunamacan; Miguelenho;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xbx Kabixi (retired)
Glottolog	wany1246

Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.^[3] As of 1997, one speaker, Firmino Miguelem, was known of the Miguelenho (Uomo) variety.^[1]

Dialects

Dialects of Wanyam:^[4]

Cabishi (ambiguous name, not to be confused with unclassified Cabixi-Natterer)
Cujuna
Cumaná (Cutianá)
Matama (Matawa)
Urunamacan
Pawumwa (Abitana-Wanyam)^[5]

Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a Huanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua, Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).^[4]

Notes

↑ The ISO 639 code categorized Cabishi as a "Chapacura-Wanham" language; i.e. a Chapacuran language.

References

1 2 Angenot, Geralda de Lima Vitor (2013-08-23). "FONOTÁTICA E FONOLOGIA DO LEXEMA PROTOCHAPAKURA". Revista Eletrônica Língua Viva (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 (1). ISSN 2237-9800.
↑ Birchall, Joshua; Dunn, Michael; Greenhill, Simon J. (July 2016). "A Combined Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chapacuran Language Family". International Journal of American Linguistics. 82 (3): 255–284. doi:10.1086/687383. hdl:2066/166431. ISSN 0020-7071.
↑ Hammarström, Harald (September 2015). "Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices". Language. 91 (3): s1–s188. doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0049. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0029-1D58-0. ISSN 1535-0665.
1 2 Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
↑ Chamberlain, Alexander F. (1912). "The Linguistic Position of the Pawumwa Indians of South America". American Anthropologist. 14 (4): 632–635. doi:10.1525/aa.1912.14.4.02a00060. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 659835.

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[3] The ISO 639 code categorized Cabishi as a "Chapacura-Wanham" language; i.e. a Chapacuran language.

[:0-1] 1 2 Angenot, Geralda de Lima Vitor (2013-08-23). "FONOTÁTICA E FONOLOGIA DO LEXEMA PROTOCHAPAKURA". Revista Eletrônica Língua Viva (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 (1). ISSN 2237-9800.

[2] Birchall, Joshua; Dunn, Michael; Greenhill, Simon J. (July 2016). "A Combined Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chapacuran Language Family". International Journal of American Linguistics. 82 (3): 255–284. doi:10.1086/687383. hdl:2066/166431. ISSN 0020-7071.

[4] Hammarström, Harald (September 2015). "Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices". Language. 91 (3): s1–s188. doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0049. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0029-1D58-0. ISSN 1535-0665.

[Mason-1950-5] 1 2 Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

[6] Chamberlain, Alexander F. (1912). "The Linguistic Position of the Pawumwa Indians of South America". American Anthropologist. 14 (4): 632–635. doi:10.1525/aa.1912.14.4.02a00060. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 659835.

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Dialects

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References