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Huaorani language
The Huaorani language is a language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may live in Peru.
Regional variation
Huaorani has 3 varieties:
Tiguacuna (also known as Tiwakuna)
Tuei
Shiripuno
Genetic relations
Various hypothetical groupings have included Huaorani:
Joseph Greenberg's Andean grouping
Morris Swadesh's macro-Jibaro
Jorge Suarez's Hivaro-Kawapana
See also
Huaorani
External links
Ethnologue: Waorani language
Proel: Lengua Sabela
Bibliography
Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. .
Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), ''Atlas of the world's languages(pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
Peeke, M. Catherine. (2003). A bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador. SIL International. Retrieved 2007 December 26 from http://www.sil.org/silewp/2003/silewp2003-006.pdf
Rival, Laura. Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador'', Columbia University Press, 2002.
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