Wapishana language

Wapixana
Native to	Guyana, Brazil
Ethnicity	Wapishana
Native speakers	13,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Wapishanan (Rio Branco) Wapixana
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 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%.^[1]

Notes

1. Wapixana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wapishana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References

• Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (1999). "The Arawak language family". In Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R.M.W. The Amazonian languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 65–106.
• Gomes dos Santos, Manoel (2006). Uma Gramática do Wapixana (Aruák) – Aspectos da Fonologia, da Morfologia e da Sintaxe (Dissertation). Campinas, SP: Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
• Tracy, Frances V. (1974). "An Introduction to Wapishana Verb Morphology". International Journal of American Linguistics 40 (2): 120–125. doi:10.1086/465294.