Waraikú (Araikú) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. The only record of this language is in a wordlist published in 1867 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Both Kaufman (1994) and Aikhenvald (1999)[2] leave it unclassified within Northern Arawakan.
Waraikú | |
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Araikú | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Solimões and Jutaí rivers |
Era | attested 1867[1] |
Arawakan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | arai1239 |
References
edit- ^ von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. ISBN 9781012121358.
- ^ Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (2006). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed 1st pbk. version ed.). Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57893-6.