Kawishana language

Cawishana
Kaixana
Native to Brazil
Extinct mid 20th century
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist list
qsw
Glottolog kais1242[1]

Cawishana (Kawishana, Kaishana) is an Arawakan language, presumably extinct, of Brazil. A few speakers were reported in the 1950s.

Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it as a Middle Rio Negro, North Amazonian language, along with Shiriana and Manao. Kaufman (1994) had placed it in a branch of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian along with two long-extinct languages, Jumana (Yumana) and Pasé, which Aikhenvald leaves unclassified. It had an active–stative syntax.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kaishana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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