Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ[1]) and Mariaté are an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).
| Wainumá-Mariaté | |
|---|---|
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qtj | |
qtw | |
| Glottolog | uain1239 |
Word lists
Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:[2]
- Spix and Martius in 1820
- Johann Natterer in 1832
- Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851[3]
A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.