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.