Wai-wai people

Wai-wai

Wai-wai man
Total population
2,672
Regions with significant populations
Brazil	2,502 (2014)[1]
Guyana	170 (2006)[1]
Languages
Wai Wai language Various local languages
Religion
Christianity, Animism

The Wai-wai (also written Waiwai or Wai Wai) are a Carib-speaking Indigenous people of Guyana and northern Brazil. Their society consists of different lowland forest peoples who have maintained much of their cultural identity with the exception of Christianity which was introduced to them in the late 1950s.

The Umana Yana in Georgetown, Guyana, takes its name from the Wai-Wai for "meeting place".