{{Short description|Extinct Chapacuran language of Brazil}} {{Infobox language | name = Wanyam | nativename = | region = Rondônia | extinct = after 1997, with the death of Firmino Miguelem | familycolor = American | fam1 = Chapacuran | fam2 = Wari | iso3 = xbx | glotto = wany1246 | glottorefname = Wanyam | dia1 = Abitana | states = Brazil | ref = <ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Birchall |first1=Joshua |last2=Dunn |first2=Michael |last3=Greenhill |first3=Simon J. |date=July 2016 |title=A Combined Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chapacuran Language Family |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/687383 |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |language=en |volume=82 |issue=3 |pages=255–284 |doi=10.1086/687383 |issn=0020-7071|hdl=2066/166431 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> | speakers = | ethnicity = Wanám | altname = Wanham | iso3comment = Kabixi (retired){{Efn|The ISO 639 code categorized Cabishi as a "Chapacura-Wanham" language; i.e. a Chapacuran language.}} | dia2 = Cujuna | dia3 = Cabixi | dia4 = Mataua | dia5 = Cumaná | dia6 = Urunamacan | dia7 = Miguelenho }}

'''Wanyam''' or '''Wanham''' (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |date=September 2015 |title=Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/593411/pdf |journal=Language |language=en |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=s1–s188 |doi=10.1353/lan.2015.0049 |issn=1535-0665|url-access=<!--free-->|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0029-1D58-0 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> As of 1997, one speaker, Firmino Miguelem, was known of the Miguelenho (Uomo) variety.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Angenot |first=Geralda de Lima Vitor |date=2013-08-23 |title=FONOTÁTICA E FONOLOGIA DO LEXEMA PROTOCHAPAKURA |url=https://periodicos.unir.br/index.php/linguaviva/article/view/714 |journal=Revista Eletrônica Língua Viva |language=pt-BR |volume=3 |issue=1 |issn=2237-9800}}</ref>

==Dialects== Dialects of Wanyam:<ref name="Mason-1950">{{cite book |last=Mason |first=John Alden |url=https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/hsai:vol6p157-317/vol6p157-317_mason.pdf |title=Handbook of South American Indians |date=1950 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 |editor-last1=Steward |editor-first1=Julian |volume=6 |location=Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office |pages=157–317 |chapter=The languages of South America |authorlink=John Alden Mason}}</ref> *Cabishi (ambiguous name, not to be confused with unclassified Cabixi-Natterer) *Cujuna *Cumaná (Cutianá) *Matama (Matawa) *Urunamacan *Pawumwa (Abitana-Wanyam)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chamberlain |first=Alexander F. |date=1912 |title=The Linguistic Position of the Pawumwa Indians of South America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/659835 |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=632–635 |doi=10.1525/aa.1912.14.4.02a00060 |jstor=659835 |issn=0002-7294}}</ref>

Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a ''Huanyam'' linguistic stock consisting of Mataua, Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).<ref name="Mason-1950"/>

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==References== {{reflist}}{{Languages of Brazil}}{{Chapacuran languages}} Category:Chapacuran languages {{na-lang-stub}}