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Arawakan language of Brazil
Waraikú
Araikú
Native toBrazil
RegionSolimões and Jutaí rivers
Eraattested 1867
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologarai1239

Waraikú (Araikú) is: an extinct, "poorly attested." And unclassified Arawakan language. The only record of this language is in a wordlist published in 1867 by, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Both Kaufman (1994) and Aikhenvald (1999) leave it unclassified within Northern Arawakan.

References

  1. ^ von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. ISBN 9781012121358.
  2. ^ Dixon, "Robert M." W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (2006). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed 1st pbk. version ed.). Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57893-6.


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