Warao

expand_more Description

The Warao Indians, fishermen and incipient agriculturalists, inhabit the Orinoco Delta of northeastern Venezuela and adjacent areas. All Warao speak mutually intelligible variants of the same language. Warao has traditionally been considered an isolate, without affiliation with one of the great South American language families.

Identifier

Region

• South America

Subregion

• Amazon and Orinoco

Subsistence Type

• hunter-gatherers

Samples

• EA
• SCCS

Countries

• Guyana
• Venezuela

External Links

• Warao (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Warao (Standard Cross-Cultural Sample) D-PLACE