Piaroa language

{{Short description|Piaroan language spoken in South America}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Piaroa

|nativename=De'aruwa

|states=Colombia and Venezuela

|ethnicity=Piaroa people

|speakers=13,000–14,000

|date=2001

|ref={{cite web|title = Endangered Languages Project – Piaroa| url =http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2954| access-date = 6 March 2021}}

|familycolor=American

|fam1=Piaroa–Saliban

|fam2=Piaroan

|script=Latin

|iso3=pid

|glotto=piar1243

|glottorefname=Piaroa

|ELP=2954

|map = Piaroa.png

}}

Piaroa (also called Guagua ~ Kuakua ~ Quaqua, Adole ~ Ature, Wo’tiheh) is an indigenous language of Colombia and Venezuela, native to the Huottüja people. Loukotka (1968) reports that it is spoken along the Sipapo River, Orinoco River, and Ventuari River.{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |author-link=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}}

A Wirö language (commonly called Maco) is closely related, the two forming the Piaroan branch of the family.Zamponi, R. 2017 'Betoi-Jirara, Sáliban, and Hodɨ: relationships among three linguistic lineages of the mid-Orinoco region'. Anthropological Linguistics 59: 263-321.