Mapidian language
| Mapidian | |
|---|---|
| Maopidyán | |
| Native to | Brazil |
Native speakers | 10 (2006)[1] |
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Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mpw |
| Glottolog |
mapi1252 (Mapidian)[2]mawa1268 (Mawakwa)[3] |
Mapidian (Maopidyán) is a moribund Arawakan language of Brazil and formerly of Guyana.
Kaufman (1994) classified Mapidian as a dialect of Wapishana, whereas Aikhenvald (1999) separates them. Ethnologue notes they have a "lexical similarity" of 10%.[1]
Extinct Mawakwa may have been a dialect (Loukotka 1968, Aikhenvald).
Aikhenvald had included Mawayana as a variant of Mapidian, but Hicks (2002) reports they are not similar.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mapidian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mapidian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mawakwa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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