Wai-wai People - Language

Language

There are several thousand speakers of the Wai Wai language, though the Carib-speaking Wai Wai Indians have close affinities to another Amazonian group known as the Arara.

The Wai Wai have a history of intermarriage with other indigenous groups who speak similar languages.

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