WARAO ( Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau )

Spoken by 18,000 people on the delta of Orinoco River, Delta Amacuro, Sucre. Monagas, Venezuela. Also spoken on both sides of the Guyana-Suriname border.
Linguistic Lineage for Warao
Venezuela

Karima, najamutuata jakutai,
Jiwai yatomanetekunarai.
Jirujuna rujanu rijana.
Najamutuata jiaobojona eku abaya.
Raina eku monukajase jiaobojona eku abakunarai.
Kanajoro ama saba jakutai taisi kamoau.
Kaisiko asiraja nonajakutai taisi kuare barinaka kaobojona bereaoko.
Taisi monuka kaobojona asirajasi kuare barinaka bere.
Kayakara minaka jau.
Tiarone asiraja arotuma amojekumo kejeronu.
Iji are Airamo tane rujakitane ja.
Iji are jijara taeraja.
Iji are Airamowitu.
Amén.

Source: "AJUTE JIRO".
El Nuevo Testamento en Warao. Sociedad Bíblica de Venezuela.
New Testament in Warao. Venezuela Bible Society (1974).
Contributed by José Ramón Frontado - E-mail frontado@cantv.net

Note: The "Warao" is a language spoken in Venezuela by a group of natives from the Delta of the Orinoco River, in Delta Amacuro State, known as the Waraos.
The word "Warao", according to the historian Alvaro A. García Castro, means: "Inhabitant of the Marismas" (Waha: marsh, flooding area, low shore. Arao: people, inhabitant). Bigott Magazine. No. 45. Year 1988.
Based in the native census from 1991 in Venezuela, the population of Waraos was 21,125.

SECTION INDEX

CONVENT OF PATER NOSTER

CHRISTUS REX

© Copyright Christus Rex, Inc.