Key facts
- Native to
- Venezuela , Guyana , Suriname
- Ethnicity
- Warao
- Native speakers
- 32,800 (2005–2011)
- Language family
- Language isolate or Waroid
- Official language in
- Venezuela
- Iso 639 3
- wba
- Glottolog
- wara1303
- Elp
- Warao
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Venezuela
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- linguistic typology
- language isolate
- Commons category
- Warao language
- topic's main category
- Category:Warao language
- indigenous to
- Delta Amacuro
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 28100
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Encyclopedic overview
Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is the Native language of the Warao people. A language isolate, it is spoken by about 33,000 people primarily in northern Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname. It is notable for its unusual object–subject–verb word order. The 2015 Venezuelan film Gone with the River was spoken in Warao.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Warao” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.