Wanano

Facts

  • Language: Wanano
  • Alternate names: Uanana, Ananas, Wanana, Wanâna, Wanano, Anana, Kótedia, Kótirya, Uanano, Kotiria, Guanano, Kotedia, Wanana-Pirá, Piratapuyo, Waikena, Kotiria, Wanana, Wanano-Piratapuyo
  • Language code: gvc
  • Language family: Tucanoan, Eastern Tucanoan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: ~2,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    The Guanano move back and forth across the border with Colombia.

    Ethnologue (2009) says Piratapuyo is close to Wanano linguistically (99%% lexical similarity) but ethnically distinct; the two groups do not intermarry. Ethnologue (2013) says Piratapuyo is reportedly similar to Guanano (Wanano) [gvc] but ethnically distinct, and that there is 75% intelligibility with Guanano (1992 N. Waltz).Campbell (2012:108) and Kaufman (2007: 68) lists Wanano and Piratapuyo as a single language.