Endangered Languages Project - Guarequena

Guarequena

^{[aka Warekena, Arequena, Guarekena]}

Classification: Arawakan

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Warekena, Arequena, Guarekena, Uerequema, Urequema, Warekéna, Werikena, Guarenquena, Warekena
CLASSIFICATION		Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Upper Amazon
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gae
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
180
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,319
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are 160 speakers out of an ethnic population of 513 people in Venezuela (2001), and 20 speakers out of an ethnic population of 806 people in Brazil (2006).

DATE OF INFO: Venezuela 2001, Brazil 2006

PLACES: Brazil and Venezuela

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
520
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
705
Native speakers worldwide

Ethnic population
991
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number: Approximately 12 in Brazil.

In Venezuela, the speakers are all over 50 years of age and bilingual in Spanish, some of them are even speakers of three or four languages, a regional phenomenon.

DATE OF INFO: 1998

PLACES: Brazil and Venezuela

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
>160
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"160 in Venezuela (2001 census). Population total all countries: 650. Ethnic population: 510" [sic].
(Unchanged 2016.)

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Shifting to Spanish [spa]. Older adults 50 and older. All also use Spanish

PLACES: Venezuela, northern Brazil, possibly Colombia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Amazonas, San Miguel river, Guzmán Blanco village, below Maroa. Possibly in Colombia.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

COORDINATES

2.5479,-67.2802

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press