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Warao|wəˈraʊ|
Also 9 Warow, Worrow; Warrau, Warraw.
[Native name.]
(A member of) an American Indian people inhabiting Guyana, Surinam, and Venezuela; also, the language of this people. Also attrib.
The spelling Warao has recently emerged as the usual spelling for the language and the people.
1807H. Bolingbroke Voy. to Demerary vii. 151 The Worrows principally inhabit the sea coast lying between the Demerary and Surinam. 1834W. Hilhouse in Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. IV. 321 (heading) Memoir on the Warow Land of British Guiana. Ibid. 324 On these reefs are situated many Indian villages—Warows, Arawacks, [etc.]. 1883E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians of Guiana vi. 167 The Warraus are the shortest. 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 354 The Guaraouna or Warrau was, and continues to be, spoken by the tribes of the [Orinoco] delta. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 676/2 [British Guiana] The aborigines—Arawaks, Caribs, Wapisianas, Warraws, &c.—..are now estimated at about 6500. 1948P. Kirchhoff in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians III. 870 The Warrau language constitutes an independent family. Ibid. 869 The Warrau live in the intricate Delta of the Orinoco. 1950J. A. Mason in Ibid. VI. 252 The independence of the Warrau linguistic family has been admitted by all authorities. 1965Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics XXXI. 106 Warao appears to have a large number of compounds. Ibid., The Warao text is divided into numbered sentences without any other punctuation. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 18 Dec. 9/5 Several cuckoos have befouled the nests of the Arawaks, Caribs, Wapisianas, Warraws and what-nots. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. Sept./Oct. 13/3 Roth..gave the title ‘The Adventures of Kororomanna’ to a long Warao story. 1979J. Halifax Shamanic Voices (1980) i. 28 The Warao shaman also believes the rattle to be the world axis. |