{{Short description|Extinct Cariban language}} {{Infobox language | name = Wayumara | nativename = Wajumará | states = Brazil | region = Roraima | ethnicity = | extinct = ? | ref = | familycolor = cariban | fam1 = Cariban | fam2 = Guianan | iso3 = none | glotto = wayu1242 | fam3 = Makiritare }}
'''Wayumara''' (Waiyamara)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schomburgk |first=Robert H. |date=1848 |title=Remarks to accompany a comparative vocabulary of eighteen languages and dialects of Indian Tribes inhabiting Guiana |url=https://books.google.ca/books/about/Simmonds_s_Colonial_Magazine_and_Foreign.html?id=R7ENAAAAQAAJ |journal=Simmonds's Colonial Magazine |volume=15 |pages=46–64}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Koch-Grünberg |first=Theodor |date=1913 |title=Abschluß meiner Reise durch Nordbrasilien zum Orinoco, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von mir besuchten Indianerstämme |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23031297 |journal=Zeitschrift für Ethnologie |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=448–474 |issn=0044-2666}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Koch-Grunberg |first=Theodor |url=http://archive.org/details/bub_br_1918_01011140 |title=Vom Roraima zum Orinoco |date=1928 |publisher=Berlin : Dietrich Reimer (Ernest Vohsen) |volume=4 |language=German}}</ref> is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Makiritare branch as a close relative of Ye'kuana,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110258035/html |title=The Indigenous Languages of South America |chapter=The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide |date=2012-01-27 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3-11-025803-5 |pages=444 |language=en |doi=10.1515/9783110258035 |hdl=1887/70116 |editor-last1=Campbell |editor-last2=Grondona |editor-first1=Lyle |editor-first2=Verónica }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kaufman |first=Terrence |title=Atlas of the World's Languages |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-31074-1 |editor-last=Asher |editor-first=R. E. |edition=2nd |location=London |pages=59–94 |chapter=South America |editor-last2=Moseley |editor-first2=Christopher}}</ref> but his classification is outdated.<ref>{{Citation |last=Gildea |first=Spike |title=Linguistic studies in the Cariban family |date=2012-01-13 |work=The Indigenous Languages of South America |pages=441–494 |editor-last=Campbell |editor-first=Lyle |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110258035.441/html |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=DE GRUYTER |doi=10.1515/9783110258035.441 |isbn=978-3-11-025513-3 |editor2-last=Grondona |editor2-first=Verónica|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Glottolog groups the language in the Guianan Carib branch, following Girard (1971),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Proto-Carib phonology {{!}} Linguistics |url=https://lx.berkeley.edu/publications/proto-carib-phonology |access-date=2025-11-02 |website=lx.berkeley.edu}}</ref> in a subgroup with Ye'kuana.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.2 - Wayumara |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/wayu1242 |access-date=2025-11-02 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Cariban languages}}{{Languages of Brazil}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wajumara language}} Category:Cariban languages Category:Extinct languages
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