Wanyam language
{{Short description|Extinct Chapacuran language of Brazil}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Wanyam
| nativename =
| region = Rondônia
| extinct = after 1970s
| familycolor = American
| fam1 = Chapacuran
| fam2 = Wari
| iso3 = none
| glotto = wany1246
| glottorefname = Wanyam
| dia1 = Abitana
| states = Brazil
| ref = Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
| speakers =
| ethnicity = Wanám
| altname = Wanham
}}
Wanyam or Wanham (Wañam, Huanyam) is a Chapacuran language of Rondônia, between the rivers São Miguel and Cautário. Abitana was a dialect. It was spoken by a few families in the 1970s, but is now extinct.
Dialects
Dialects of Wanyam:{{cite book |last=Mason |first=John Alden |authorlink=John Alden Mason |date=1950 |chapter=The languages of South America |editor-first1=Julian |editor-last1=Steward |title=Handbook of South American Indians |volume=6 |pages=157–317 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 |location=Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office}}
- Cabishi (spurious)
- Cujuna
- Cumaná (Cutianá)
- Matama (Matawa)
- Urunamacan
- Pawumwa (Abitana Wanyam)
Lévi-Strauss had also proposed a Huanyam linguistic stock consisting of Mataua Cujuna (Cuijana), Urunamakan, Cabishí, Cumaná, Abitana-Huanyam (from Snethlage's data), and Pawumwa (from Haseman's data).