Akawaio language

E220131

The Akawaio language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Akawaio people of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Akawaio language canonical 11

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language ⓘ
Cariban language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alternativeName Acawai ⓘ
Acawayo ⓘ
Akawayo ⓘ
linked to: Akawaio

Kapon ⓘ
Kapóng ⓘ
associatedPeople Akawaio people ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Ingarikó language ⓘ
Patamona language ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Brazil ⓘ
Guyana ⓘ
linked to: British Guiana

Venezuela ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Akawaio ⓘ
geographicDistribution Guiana Shield region ⓘ
linked to: Guiana Shield
glottocode akaw1239 ⓘ
glottologName Akawaio ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Ingarikó language ⓘ
Patamona language ⓘ
hasLinguisticCode Glottocode: akaw1239 ⓘ
ISO 639-3: ake ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported in some descriptions) ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ
ISO639-3Code ake ⓘ
languageBranch Northern Cariban ⓘ
languageFamily Cariban ⓘ
linked to: Carib
macroLanguageGroup Kapon languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Arekuna (Ingarikó) language ⓘ
linked to: Ingarikó language

Makushi language ⓘ
Patamona language ⓘ
partOfCulturalHeritageOf Akawaio people ⓘ
region Cuyuni-Mazaruni region ⓘ
Upper Mazaruni River region ⓘ
SOVOrderTendency yes ⓘ
spokenBy Akawaio people ⓘ
spokenIn Brazil ⓘ
Guyana ⓘ
linked to: British Guiana

Venezuela ⓘ
subfamily Venezuelan Carib ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
usedInEducation limited community-based education ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Carib languages → hasNotableLanguage → Akawaio language ⓘ
Pemon language → hasNeighboringLanguage → Akawaio language ⓘ
Patamona language → closelyRelatedTo → Akawaio language ⓘ
Arekuna → linguisticallyRelatedTo → Akawaio language ⓘ
Akawaio → language → Akawaio language ⓘ
Ingarikó language → closelyRelatedTo → Akawaio language ⓘ
Guianan Carib → hasSubgroup → Akawaio language ⓘ
Kapon languages → hasMember → Akawaio language ⓘ
Acawayo → alternativeNameOf → Akawaio language ⓘ
Akawaio people → language → Akawaio language ⓘ