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| Maquiritari | |
|---|---|
| Dekwana | |
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | Ye'kuana |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2000 – 2001 census)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mch |
| Glottolog | maqu1238 |
| ELP | Yekuana |
Ye'kuana (Ye'kuana: [jeʔkwana]), also known as Maquiritari, Dekwana, Ye'kwana, Ye'cuana, Yekuana, Cunuana, Kunuhana, De'cuana, De’kwana Carib, Pawana, Maquiritai, Maquiritare, Maiongong, or Soto is the language of the Ye'kuana people of Venezuela and Brazil. It is a Cariban language. It is spoken by approximately 5,900 people (c. 2001) around the border of northwestern Brazilian state of Roraima and Venezuela – the majority (about 5,500) in Venezuela. At the time of the 2001 Venezuelan census, there were at 6,523 Ye’kuana living in Venezuela.[2] Given the unequal distribution of the Ye’kuana across two South American countries, Ethnologue lists two different vitality ratings for Ye’kuana: in Venezuela it is listed as Vigorous (6a), while in Brazil it is classified Moribund (8a) on the Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS).[3]
- ^ Maquiritari at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ^ Cáceres, Natalia (2011). Grammaire fonctionelle-typologique du Ye'kwana [Functional-Typological Grammar of Ye'kwana] (PDF) (PhD dissertation) (in French). Lumière University Lyon 2.
- ^ Lewis, Paul; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. (2016). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth edition". SIL International.
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