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Amanaye Indian Language (Amanayé, Manaye, Manazo)

Language: Amanaye is a Tupian language of South America, still spoken by only a few elders in Brazil. Most of the Amanaye population has shifted to using Portuguese. Amanaye is an agglutinative language with fairly free word order.

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Names: Amanaye is the people's own name for themselves, meaning "community" or "group of people." Since the Amanaye language is unwritten, their names have been spelled many different ways over the years, such as Manaye, Amanaié, Amanajó, Amanajo, Manajo, Amanyaye, Amanayé, Amanajé, Amanage, Amanaje, Amanyé, Manayé, Mananyé, Manajó, Manaxó, Manaze, Manazewá, and Manazo. They have sometimes also been known as the Turiwa (which was a village name) or the Ararandeua Indians (the name of a river which tuns through their territory.) The name "Ararandeua" (along with variants like Ararandeuara and Ararandewara) has been used to refer to more than one indigenous group living in this region, and it's not clear to linguists whether the languages separately recorded as "Amanaye" and "Ararandewara" are actually the same language, or two different languages from the same language family. We have included both of them together on this page since so little information is available about either.

Amanaye Language Resources

Amanaye Words:
Our list of Amanaye and Ararandewara vocabulary words.

Amanaye:
Wikipedia article on the Amanaye language.

Amanaye Language Tree:
Theories about Amanaye's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Idioma Amanaye:
Information about the Amanaye language in Spanish.

OLAC: Amanaye:
Reference list of Amanaye language materials.

Endangered Languages Project: Amanaye:
Bibliography of Amanaye language resources.

Amanaye Culture and History Links

Eastern Timbira and Neighboring Tribes:
Map showing the original locations of the Amanaye, Gavioes and other tribes of Para.

Indigenous Peoples in Brazil: Amanaye:
Information about Amanaye culture and history.

The Amanayé:
Ethnography of the Amanaye/Turiwara tribe.

Links, References, and Additional Information

  Wikipedia: The Amanaye Indians:
   Encylopedia entries about the Amanaye tribe.
  Brazilian Culture:
   Information and links about the indigenous culture of Brazil.
  Povo Amanaye

Os Amanaies:
Information about the Amanaye tribe in Portuguese.

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