Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and...
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northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Arawakan language family. The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling...
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attested Arawakan languages seems to be the Wayuu language, spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. Scholars have suggested that the Wayuu are descended from...
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La Guajira Department (category Articles containing Wayuu-language text)
settlement as the village of Riohacha, as a result of constant attacks by the Wayuu people. In 1544, it was moved to the site of the present-day city. In 1871...
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and Venezuela. Other uses include: Wayuu language or Wayuunaiki, the Arawakan language spoken by Wayuu people Wayuu: La niña de Maracaibo, a 2012 Venezuelan...
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Birds of Passage (film) (category Wayuu-language films)
Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. In the late 1960s, Zaida (Natalia Reyes), a young Wayuu woman, comes...
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speak other language as their mother tongue (main languages: Chinese 400,000, Portuguese 254,000, Wayuu 199,000, Arabic 110,000) Quispe Fernández, Ezio...
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Chile; Wayuu in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela; and Mapudungun in small pockets of southern Chile and Argentina. In Bolivia, three languages—Quechua...
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Maracaibo (category Articles containing Wayuu-language text)
Maracaibo (/ˌmærəˈkaɪboʊ/ MARR-ə-KY-boh, Spanish: [maɾaˈkajβo] ; Wayuu: Marakaaya) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western...
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List of Wikipedias (redirect from Wayuu Wikipedia)
community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...
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