Handbook of Amazonian Languages
Contributors: Desmond C. Derbyshire (Editor); Geoffrey K. Pullum (Editor)
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc; De Gruyter Mouton; Walter de Gruyter
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9783110149913
Subjects: Morphology; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; South American & Caribbean indigenous languages; Language
First sentence: Wai Wai is a language of the Carib family spoken in a village on the Mapuera river of Para, Brazil, and in another village on the Jatapuzinho River of Roraima, Brazil, by a few people living among the Hixkaryana people on the Nhamundá River in Amazonas, Brazil, in another village near Gunn's Strip on the Upper Essequibo River in Guyana, and by a group living among the Trio Indians in Southern Surinam.