Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a
Chapacuran language
The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. Almost all Chapacuran languages are extinct, and the four that are extant are moribund, with the exception of Wari'. They are spoken in Rondônia in ...
of
Rondônia
Rondônia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northern subdivision of the country (central-western part). It is bordered by Acre (state), Acre in the west,
Amazonas, Brazil, Amazonas in the north, Mato Grosso in the east, and Bo ...
, between the rivers
São Miguel and
Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.
Dialects
Dialects of Wanyam:
*Cabishi (spurious)
*Cujuna
*Cumaná (Cutianá)
*Matama (Matawa)
*Urunamacan
*Pawumwa (Abitana Wanyam)
Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a ''Huanyam'' linguistic stock consisting of Mataua Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from
Haseman's data).
References
Chapacuran languages
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