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Warekena (Guarequena), or more preciselyWarekena of Xié, is anArawakan language ofBrazil and ofMaroa Municipality inVenezuela, spoken near theGuainia River. It is one of several languages which go by the generic nameBaré andBaniwa/Baniva – in this case, distinguished asBaniva de Maroa orBaniva de Guainía.

There may be 10 speakers in Brazil and 200 in Venezuela, per Aikhenvald (1999).

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999) in Eastern Nawiki.

Personal pronouns in Warekena are formed by adding an emphatic suffix-ya to the cross-referencing personal prefixes.^[3]

/u/ can also range to[o].^[4]

Unmarked constituent order is AVO, VS_o, S_aV, or S_ioV.^[3]

Indirect objects tend to be placed immediately after the predicate.

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