Wapishana language
| Wapixana | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guyana, Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Wapishana |
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Native speakers
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13,000 (2000) |
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Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | wapi1253 |
Wapishana (Wapixana) is an Arawakan language of Guyana and Brazil.
Kaufman (1994) considered Wapishana, Atorada, and Mapidian to be dialects. Aikhenvald (1999) separates Mawayana/Mapidian/Mawakwa (considered as a single language) from Wapishana, and she includes them in a Rio Branco branch. Ethnologue notes that Atorada has 50% lexical similarity with Wapishana and 20% with Mapidian, and that Wapishana and Mapidian share 10%.
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