Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and...

northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Arawakan language family. The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling...

attested Arawakan languages seems to be the Wayuu language, spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. Scholars have suggested that the Wayuu are descended from...

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...

and Venezuela. Other uses include: Wayuu language or Wayuunaiki, the Arawakan language spoken by Wayuu people Wayuu: La niña de Maracaibo, a 2012 Venezuelan...

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...

speak other language as their mother tongue (main languages: Chinese 400,000, Portuguese 254,000, Wayuu 199,000, Arabic 110,000) Quispe Fernández, Ezio...

Chile; Wayuu in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela; and Mapudungun in small pockets of southern Chile and Argentina. In Bolivia, three languages—Quechua...

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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