Waorani
Waorani is a language isolate spoken in Ecuador, by about 1,650 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Wao Terero, the Waorani (Huaorani) language, earlier also known as Sabela and Awishiri (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Ssabela; pejorative: "Auka", "Auca"), is a language isolate spoken by the Waorani people, an Indigenous people living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Ecuador. It is considered Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. A small number of speakers among uncontacted groups may live in Peru.
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Written down
Tomamo waomo ekame wee anamay inani tomemo kewengi beye tomamo neemompa noynga impa aye anobay impa wadani inanite wakeki beye angampa.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Waorani
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | waoka* | |
| name | ebowo* | |
| eye | awika* | |
| ear | odoboka* | |
| nose | odokado* | |
| tooth | baga* | |
| tongue | odogedewa* | |
| hand | odopo* | |
| blood | wepE* | |
| bone | babe* | |
| skin | Ebotai* | |
| knee | odokapo* | |
| breast | gobE* | |
| liver | batE* | |
| water | EpE* | |
| fire | goga* | |
| sun | dEke* | |
| star | debo* | |
| stone | dika* | |
| mountain | adakidi* | |
| tree | awE* | |
| leaf | oyabo* | |
| night | woyowotE* | |
| dog | gita* | |
| fish | gEyE* | |
| louse | kEpE* | |
| one | adoke* | |
| two | bea* | |
| I | boto* | |
| you | bito* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · waor1240 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · auc