title: Wainumá-Mariaté language
text: # Wainumá-Mariaté language
  
  Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ) and Mariaté are an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).
  
  ## Word lists
  
  Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by:
  
  * Spix and Martius in 1820
  * Johann Natterer in 1832
  * Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851
  
  A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.
  
  