Handbook of Amazonian Languages

Résumé

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.