Wapishana language
| Wapixana | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guyana, Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Wapishana |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000)[1] |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wap |
| Glottolog | wapi1253 |
| ELP | Wapixana |
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
- ^ a b Wapixana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
References
- Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (1999). "The Arawak language family". In Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R.M.W. (eds.). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 65–106.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - 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.
{{cite thesis}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tracy, Frances V. (1974). "An Introduction to Wapishana Verb Morphology". International Journal of American Linguistics. 40 (2): 120–125. doi:10.1086/465294.
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