Mawayana language
Encyclopedia
Mawayana is an Arawakan language of Guyana
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Aikhenvald (1999) lists Mawayana as an alternate name of Mapidian
. However, Hicks (2002) reports that it has no "semantic" similarity with Mapidian or the other Wapishanan languages; it is thus left unclassified here.
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
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Aikhenvald (1999) lists Mawayana as an alternate name of Mapidian
Mapidian language
Mapidian is a moribund Arawakan language of Brazil and formerly of Guyana.Kaufman classified Mapidian as a dialect of Wapishana, whereas Aikhenvald separates them. Ethnologue notes they have a "lexical similarity" of 10%....
. However, Hicks (2002) reports that it has no "semantic" similarity with Mapidian or the other Wapishanan languages; it is thus left unclassified here.