Avá

Facts

  • Language: Avá
  • Alternate names: Avá-Canoeiro, Canoeiros, Canoe, Canoa, Abá, Awana, Canoeiro, Ava-Canoeiro, Awana, Awá, Guajá, Awá Guajá, Ayaya, Wazaizara, Ava
  • Language code: avv
  • Language family: Tupian, Tupí-Guaraní, Tenetehara (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 16
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script:

More information:

    Seminomadic. The group in Tocantins, contacted in 1974, has 12 people. An estimated 15 remain uncontacted. The other group in Goias, contacted in 1983 has 9 people, with an estimated 10 remaining uncontacted. Traditional religion.

    Avá is spoken in Brazil, South America.