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WAJÃPI 
photo: Dominique T. Gallois, 1983.
 

Other names:
Guaiapi, Wajâpi, Wayampi, Oyampi, Wayãpy

Where they live:
Amapá state, Brazil and French Guiana

How many people:
525 in Brazil (in 1999) and 412 in French Guyana (in 1992)

Language:
Wajãpi, of Tupi-Guarani family, Tupi Branch
 

Wajãpi is the name used to designate the Indians who speak this Tupi tongue, and live in the region delimited by the rivers Oiapoc, Jari and Araguari, in Amapá. They are the same Guaiapi mentioned in the lower Xingu region, which is their provenance since the 17th century.
Dominique T. Gallois anthropologist/ USP
(Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo University)
1997.
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