Akawaio is a Cariban language spoken mainly in northern Guyana, and also in northern Brazil and eastern Venezuela, by about 6,380 people. In Guyana Akawaio is spoken by about 4,500 people on the Mazaruni river in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region. There are about 1,700 speakers of Akawaio in the Brazilian state of Roraima, and another 180 in the Bolívar state in Venezuela.
In some sources Akawaio is classified as a dialect of Kapóng, along with Patamona. In other sources they are listed as separate languages.
Akwaio is also known as Acahuayo, Acewaio, Akawai, Akawayo, Ingariko or Kapóng. It is closely related to Patamona, Pemon and Macushi.
A dictionary of Akawaio was published by the missionaries Ray and Dee Stegeman in 2014 after 14 years of working with the Akawaio people. They devised a practical alphabet for Akawaio, and also primers, other books and a translation of the New Testament. There are several other ways to write Akawaio.
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/308/LUK.11.AKE
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV
Information about Akawaio and Kapóng
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapóng_language
http://www.native-languages.org/akawaio.htm
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ake_phon-1
https://www.webonary.org/akawaio/
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ake
Akawaio, Akurio, Bakairi, Carib, Carijona, Hixkaryána, Ikpeng, Kapóng, Japreria, Macushi, Panare, Pemon, Tiriyó, Waiwai, Wayana, Yeʼkuana, Yukpa
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 09.10.24
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