Kawishana language

Cawishana
Cawishana
Kaixana
Native to	Brazil
Extinct	mid-20th century
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Manao Cawishana; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qsw
Glottolog	kais1242
ELP	Kaixana

Cawishana (Kawishana, Kaishana) is an Arawakan language, presumably extinct, of Brazil. A few speakers were reported in the 1950s, and today only one person can speak it.

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.

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