1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Baniwa

WALS coordinates: 2° 40′ 12.00″ N, 66° 49′ 48.00″ W

spoken in Brazil, Venezuela

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Baniva
Routledge:
  • Baniva
Other:
  • Baniwa of Icana,
  • Baniwa-Kurripako,
  • Baniwa (Icana)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Reduplication No productive reduplication
Nominal Categories
The Associative Plural No associative plural
Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
Simple Clauses
Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different