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ALSO KNOWN AS		Guarao, Guasay, Warrau, Guarauno, Uarow, Araote, Tivativa, Warau, Guaruno, Waraw, Faraute
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wba
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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Hans Henrich Hock and Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Vulnerable

Uncertain
~32,400
Native speakers worldwide in 2000 for Guyana, 2001 for Venezuela
Ethnic population
41,068
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Guyana: few speakers, 5,000 population (2000). Venezuela: 32,400 speakers, 36,068 population (2001).

DATE OF INFO: 2012

PLACES: Guyana

Vulnerable

Uncertain
>28,100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
28,100 in Venezuela (2007); ethnic population: 36,129. Few in Guyana (Forte 1990); ethnic population: 5,000 in Guyana (2000 J. Forte). Few in Suriname.

PLACES: Suriname; Venezuela; Guyana;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Venezuela: Orinoco River Delta, Delta Amacuro, Sucre, Monagas. Guyana: Northwestern, at Oreala, Guyana near coast, mixed with Arawak and Carib speakers. Suriname: Near Guyana border.

Vulnerable

Uncertain
18,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2005

Vulnerable

Uncertain
25,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2010

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	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger			Christopher Moseley	UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas		Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		25,000		10000-99999		Vulnerable (Uncertain)			8.6027,-61.3806
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			Comrie, Bernard , Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil & Martin Haspelmath (eds.). 2005. The World Atlas of Language Structures. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199255911	ll_pub									9.33333333333,-61.6666666667
		2012	Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking	The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide	167-234	Hans Henrich Hock and Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona	Mouton de Gruyter	Berlin		Crevels, Mily	Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Hans Henrich Hock et al.. 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.		41,068	~32,400	2000 for Guyana, 2001 for Venezuela	10000-99999	Guyana: few speakers, 5,000 population (2000). Venezuela: 32,400 speakers, 36,068 population (2001).	Vulnerable (Uncertain)	Guyana
			World Oral Literature Project						www.oralliterature.org		World Oral Literature Project. www.oralliterature.org			18,000		10000-99999		Vulnerable (Uncertain)
				Ethnologue: Languages of the World		M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub		>28,100		10000-99999	28,100 in Venezuela (2007); ethnic population: 36,129. Few in Guyana (Forte 1990); ethnic population: 5,000 in Guyana (2000 J. Forte). Few in Suriname.	Vulnerable (Uncertain)	Suriname; Venezuela; Guyana;	Venezuela: Orinoco River Delta, Delta Amacuro, Sucre, Monagas. Guyana: Northwestern, at Oreala, Guyana near coast, mixed with Arawak and Carib speakers. Suriname: Near Guyana border.

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