Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Baniwa (Baniva), or Karu, or in older sources Itayaine (Iyaine), is an Arawakan language spoken in Colombia, Venezuela, and Amazonas, Brazil. It forms a subgroup with the Tariana, Piapoco, Resígaro and Guarequena languages. There are 10,000 speakers.Aikhenvald (1999) considers the three main varieties to be dialects; Kaufman (1994) considers them to be distinct languages, in a group he calls \"Karu\". They are:Baniwa of Içana (Baniua do Içana)Curripaco (Kurripako, Ipeka-Tapuia-Curripako)Katapolítani-Moriwene-Mapanai (Catapolitani, Kadaupuritana)Various (sub)dialects of all three are called Tapuya. All are spoken by the Baniwa people. Ruhlen lists all as \"Izaneni\"; Greenberg's Adzánani (= Izaneni) presumably belongs here."@en }
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- Baniwa_language abstract "Baniwa (Baniva), or Karu, or in older sources Itayaine (Iyaine), is an Arawakan language spoken in Colombia, Venezuela, and Amazonas, Brazil. It forms a subgroup with the Tariana, Piapoco, Resígaro and Guarequena languages. There are 10,000 speakers.Aikhenvald (1999) considers the three main varieties to be dialects; Kaufman (1994) considers them to be distinct languages, in a group he calls \"Karu\". They are:Baniwa of Içana (Baniua do Içana)Curripaco (Kurripako, Ipeka-Tapuia-Curripako)Katapolítani-Moriwene-Mapanai (Catapolitani, Kadaupuritana)Various (sub)dialects of all three are called Tapuya. All are spoken by the Baniwa people. Ruhlen lists all as \"Izaneni\"; Greenberg's Adzánani (= Izaneni) presumably belongs here.".