Wapishana language
| Wapixana | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guyana, Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Wapishana |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000)[1] |
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Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wap |
| Glottolog |
wapi1253[2] |
Wapishana (Wapixana) is an Arawakan language of Guyana and Brazil.
Kaufman (1994) considered Wapishana, Atorada, and Mapidian to be dialects. Aikhenvald (1999) separates Mapidian. Ethnologue notes that Atorada has 50% lexical similarity with Wapishana and 20% with Mapidian, and that Wapishana and Mapidian share 10%.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wapixana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wapishana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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