Guajiro
Goajiro; Wayuu; Wahiro; Guajira; Goahiro; Wayuunaiki;
Arawakan; Northern Arawakan; Maritime
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~312,730
Most Guajiro are bilingual in Spanish.
There are 144,000 in Colombia and 168,730 in Venezuela.
2007
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Colombia: Department of La Guajira, all over the peninsula, especially in the municipalities of Uribia, Manaure, and Maicao, but also in Riohacha, Barrancas, Fonseca, San Juan del Cesar, Villanueva, Urumita, and El Molino. Venezuela: Zulia State, La Guajira Peninsula, to the northwest and west of Lake Maracaibo; to the north of the cities Sinamaica and Maracaibo, towards the Colombian border; a little to the north of Guana, and in Maracaibo.
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Guajiro language forms an important factor of ethnic and cultural identity.
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Colombia: Department of La Guajira, all over the peninsula, especially in the municipalities of Uribia, Manaure, and Maicao, but also in Riohacha, Barrancas, Fonseca, San Juan del Cesar, Villanueva, Urumita, and El Molino. Venezuela: Zulia State, La Guajira Peninsula, to the northwest and west of Lake Maracaibo; to the north of the cities Sinamaica and Maracaibo, towards the Colombian border; a little to the north of Guana, and in Maracaibo.
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135,000 in Colombia; 199,000 in Venezuela. (Unchanged 2016).
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La Guajira Department, Guajira peninsula, Caribbean coast.
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La Guajira Department, Guajira peninsula, Caribbean coast.
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One of the most vigorously spoken indigenous languages in South America (Crevels 2007). Positive attitudes. Many, especially younger generations, understand and speak Spanish [spa] fluently (Crevels 2007) (2013).

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There are 293,777 speakers (and ethnic population) in Venezuela (2001) and 149,827 speakers (and ethnic population) in Colombia (2001).
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
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