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