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Ye'kuana language

Maquiritari
Dekwana
Native toVenezuela
EthnicityYe'kuana
Native speakers
6,000 (2000 – 2001 census)[1]
Cariban
  • Guianan Carib
    • Maquiritari
Dialects
  • Wayumara
Language codes
ISO 639-3mch
Glottologmaqu1238
ELPYekuana
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Ye'kuana (Ye'kuana: [jeʔkwana]), also known as Maquiritari, Dekwana, Ye'kwana, Ye'cuana, Yekuana, Cunuana, Kunuhana, De'cuana, De’kwana Carib, Pawana, Maquiritai, Maquiritare, Maiongong, or Soto is the language of the Ye'kuana people of Venezuela and Brazil. It is a Cariban language. It is spoken by approximately 5,900 people (c. 2001) around the border of northwestern Brazilian state of Roraima and Venezuela – the majority (about 5,500) in Venezuela. At the time of the 2001 Venezuelan census, there were at 6,523 Ye’kuana living in Venezuela.[2] Given the unequal distribution of the Ye’kuana across two South American countries, Ethnologue lists two different vitality ratings for Ye’kuana: in Venezuela it is listed as Vigorous (6a), while in Brazil it is classified Moribund (8a) on the Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS).[3]

  1. ^ Maquiritari at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Cáceres, Natalia (2011). Grammaire fonctionelle-typologique du Ye'kwana [Functional-Typological Grammar of Ye'kwana] (PDF) (PhD dissertation) (in French). Lumière University Lyon 2.
  3. ^ Lewis, Paul; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. (2016). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth edition". SIL International.

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