Wanyam orWanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is aChapacuran language ofRondônia, between the riversSão Miguel andCautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.[3] As of 1997, one speaker, Firmino Miguelem, was known of the Miguelenho (Uomo) variety.[1]
Lévi-Strauss had also proposed aHuanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua, Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (fromHaseman's data).[4]
