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Wayuu
300.000 speakers
4 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: guc
Wayuu belongs to the Maipurean (Arawak) language family and is spoken by about 300,000 people in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula. The language is also known as Wayunaiki, Guajiro, Guajira or Goajiro.
Wayuu is taught to some extent in schools, along with Spanish, however fewer than 1% of Wayuu speakers can read and write their language, while 5-15% are literate in Spanish.
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wikipedia.org, omniglot.com & ethnologue.comAre you a hyperpolyglot? Wayuu is supported by our fonts, but unfortunately we don't have our sample text translated yet into Wayuu. If you can help us out by making a translation of these few lines of text, you rock!
Don’t be a cuckoo if you’re a nightingale.
Don’t be a nightingale or a flycatcher, if you’re a dog.
But anyone can make sound.
We are Underware.
Don’t be a cuckoo if you’re a nightingale.
Don’t be a nightingale or a flycatcher, if you’re a dog.
But anyone can make sound.
We are Underware.