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Warekena (Guarequena), or more precisely Warekena of Xié, is an Arawakan language of Brazil and of Maroa Municipality in Venezuela, spoken near the Guainia River. It is one of several languages which go by the generic name Baré and Baniwa/Baniva – in this case, distinguished as Baniva de Maroa or Baniva de Guainía.

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Warekena
Baniwa of Maroa Baniwa of Guainía
Guarequena
Native to	Brazil, Venezuela
Native speakers	650 (2001–2006)[1] ca. 200 (1999)[2]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Orinoco Warekena
Dialects	Warekena do rio Xié
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gae
Glottolog	guar1293
ELP	Guarequena

According to Aikhenvald (1999), there are maybe 10 speakers in Brazil and about 200 in Venezuela.

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Eastern Nawiki.

Personal pronouns in Warekena are formed by adding an emphatic suffix -ya to the cross-referencing personal prefixes.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
				cen.	lat.
Nasal		m	n
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ts				k
	voiced	b	d	dz				ɡ
Fricative	voiceless					ʂ
	voiced					ʐ
Rhotic	tap			ɾ	ɺ
	trill			r
Approximant		w					j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e
Low		a

/u/ can also range to [o].[4]

Grammar

Unmarked constituent order is AVO, VS_o, S_aV, or S_ioV.[3]

Indirect objects tend to be placed immediately after the predicate.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Warekena language

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[es] Warekena

El warekena (o guarequena) es un idioma arawaco hablado ante todo en el estado venezolano de Amazonas y extendido en zonas cercanas del estado brasileño homónimo y el departamento colombiano de Guainía.

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[ru] Гуарекена

Гуарекена (Arequena, Guarekena, Guarequena, Uerequema, Urequema, Warekena, Warekéna, Werikena) — аравакский язык, в деревне Гусман-Бланко, ниже города Мароа, около реки Сан-Мигель штата Амасонас в Венесуэле, а также в районе рек Чье (Шье) и Исана около границы с Венесуэлой в штате Амазонас в Бразилии. Это один из нескольких языков, который идёт под общим названием баре.

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