Wayuu

Arawakan language
Intangible natural_language Q891085
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Wayuu

Summary

Wayuu is a natural language[1]. Wayuu draws 756 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #197 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wayuu is in the country of Colombia[3].
  • Wayuu is in the country of Venezuela[4].
  • Wayuu's instance of is recorded as natural language[5].
  • Wayuu's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Wayuu is a type of Ta-Arawakan[7].
  • Wayuu is a type of Indigenous languages of the Americas[8].
  • Wayuu's writing system is recorded as Latin script[9].
  • Wayuu's Commons category is recorded as Wayuu language[10].
  • Wayuu's Wikimedia language code is recorded as guc[11].
  • Wayuu's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 12, 'lon': -71.7}[12].
  • Wayuu's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wayuu language[13].
  • Wayuu's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+300000'}[14].
  • Wayuu's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'guc', 'text': 'Wayuunaiki'}[15].
  • Wayuu's UNESCO language status is recorded as 2 vulnerable[16].
  • Wayuu's indigenous to is recorded as La Guajira Department[17].
  • Wayuu's indigenous to is recorded as Mérida[18].
  • Wayuu's indigenous to is recorded as Trujillo[19].
  • Wayuu's indigenous to is recorded as Zulia[20].
  • Wayuu's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'la langue wayuu'}[21].
  • Wayuu's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GUC[22].
  • Wayuu's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[23].
  • Wayuu's category for films in this language is recorded as Category:Wayuu-language films[24].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language[5] and modern language[6]. Recorded subclass of include Ta-Arawakan[7] and Indigenous languages of the Americas[8].

Why It Matters

Wayuu draws 756 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #197 of 734).[2] Wayuu has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Wayuu is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . ethnologue.com. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status 5 Developing
    Country
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 1934185
    Category for films in this language Category:Wayuu-language films
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007533770605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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