Maquiritare, Maiongong, or Soto is the language of the Ye'kuana people of Venezuela and Brazil. It is a Cariban language. It is spoken by approximately 5,900...

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first used in that form by Manuel Román, likely derives from the Ye'kuana language name of the river, Kashishiwadi. The first European to describe it...

Sanumá, Yanomamö and Yanomami languages of the Yanomamam linguistic family, and to Ye'kuana people speaking the Ye'kuana language of the Carib linguistic family...

Most of its speakers in Venezuela also speak Ye'kuana, also known as Maquiritare, the language of the Ye'kuana people the Sanumá live alongside in the Caura...

and poorly attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Makiritare branch as a close relative of Ye'kuana. Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica...

Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil being widely spoken by most of the population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking...

000), Pemon (30,000), Anu͂ (21,000), Huottüja (15,000), Motilone Barí, Ye'kuana and Yaruro. Around 13 000 BCE human settlement in the actual Venezuela...

and disappearing in its spoken form, from the northeast of the Amazon. Ye'kuana or Maquiritari (6,200): Its speakers are located in the Northeast state...

Ventuari River basins where they live alongside the Ye'kuana. The Sanumá language is a Yanomaman language. On 24 October 2006, their reserve in Venezuela...