Guarao

E950027

Guarao is an indigenous language of the Warao people of the Orinoco Delta region in Venezuela.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Guarao canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Warao language
indigenous language
language
associatedWith Orinoco Delta region
linked to: Orinoco Delta

Warao culture
linked to: Warao people
belongsTo indigenous languages of Venezuela
languages of South America
country Venezuela
ethnicGroup Warao
linked to: Warao people
hasAlternativeName Guarao language
Guarauno
Warao
linked to: Warao people

Warrau
hasContactLanguage Spanish
hasDocumentation linguistic fieldwork studies
hasDomain indigenous culture
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Spanish
hasGrammaticalCategory aspect
evidentiality
person marking on verbs
hasLinguisticArea Northern South America
South America
hasMorphologicalFeature postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasNeighborLanguage Spanish
hasPhonologicalFeature nasal vowels
tone-less language
hasSpeakerCommunity Warao settlements in the Orinoco Delta
hasStatus endangered language
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3Code wba
isSpokenNear Orinoco Delta wetlands
linked to: Orinoco Delta

Orinoco River
languageFamily Warao language family
region Orinoco Delta
spokenBy Warao people
spokenIn Orinoco Delta
Venezuela
usedFor daily communication within Warao communities
oral tradition
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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