Mandawaca language

{{Short description|Arawakan language spoken in Venezuela}}

{{distinguish|Baré language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Mandahuaca

| nativename = Mandawaka

| states = Venezuela, formerly Brazil

| ethnicity =

| speakers = 3,000 together with Bare and Baniwa

| date = 1975

| ref = e18

| familycolor = arawakan

| fam1 = Arawakan

| fam2 = Northern

| fam3 = Upper Amazon

| fam4 = Orinoco

| fam5 =

| iso3 = mht

| glotto = mand1448

| glottorefname = Mandahuaca

}}

Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) is an Arawakan language of Venezuela and formerly of Brazil. The number of speakers is not known; the most recent data was published in 1975. It is one of several languages which goes by the generic name Baré.

Kaufman (1994) classified it in a Warekena group of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian, Aikhenvald (1999){{Full citation needed|date=January 2025}} in Central (Orinoco) Upper Amazonian.