Baniwa or Baniwa of Içana (Baniua do Içana), is an Arawakan

Arawakan languages

Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean based on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes the proposal is called Arawakan, in which case the central family is called Maipurean....

 language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil

Brazil

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, and in Venezuela

Venezuela

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Aikhenvald (1999) considers Curripaco

Curripaco language

Curripako is an Arawakan language principally of Colombia and Venezuela. There are also a thousand speakers in Brazil....

 and Kadaupuritana (Catapolitani, Katpolítani) to be dialects; Kaufman (1994) considers them to be distinct languages. Ethnologue distinguishes only the first. Various dialects of both Baniwa and Curripaco are called Tapuya. All are spoken by the Baniwa people.