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Waorani language

Waorani (ISO 639-3 code auc) is a language isolate spoken in Ecuador. It has about 1,616 speakers. The Endangered Languages Project lists it as threatened.

Facts

ISO 639-3 codeauc
Glottocodewaor1240
FamilyIsolate (no known relatives)
AreaSouth America
CountriesEcuador
Speakers (estimate)1,616
EndangermentThreatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

More about Waorani

Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status and speaker estimate: Endangered Languages Project. Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.