Wayuu language
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wayuu-language-171-10339345
title:
Wayuu language
text:
Wayuu, or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula and surrounding Lake Maracaibo. There were an estimated 300,000 speakers of Wayuunaiki in Venezuela in 2012 and another 120,000 in Colombia in 2008, approximately half the ethnic population of 400,000 in Venezuela and 400,000 in Colombia. Smith (1995) reports that a mixed Wayuu—Spanish language is replacing Wayuunaiki in both count
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Major Arawakan language spoken in the Guajira Peninsula
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayuu_language
date created:
2006-12-01T21:19:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:00:06Z
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