Arawakan family
Wayuu
1500 CE – today Living
Wayuu (1500 CE – today) is a living Arawakan language. Lineage: Proto-Arawakan → Wayuu.
See Wayuu on the interactive map- Speakers
- 400K (400,000)
- ISO 639-3
- guc
- Glottocode
- wayu1243
Northern Arawakan (Ta-Arawakan), spoken on the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia and Venezuela.
Lineage
- Proto-Arawakanc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
- Wayuu1500 CE – today
Sister languages 3
Also descended from Proto-Arawakan.