Mawayana language

Mawayana
Mapidian
Native toBrazil, Guyana and Suriname
Native speakers
2 (2015)[1][2]
Arawakan
Dialects
  • Mawakwa?
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mzx – Mawayana
mpw – Mapidian (duplicate code)[4]
Glottologmapi1252  Mapidian-Mawayana
mawa1268  Mawakwa
ELPMawayana

Mawayana (Mahuayana), also known as Mapidian (Maopidyán), is a moribund Arawakan language of northern South America. It used to be spoken by Mawayana [nl] people living in ethnic Wai-wai and Tiriyó villages in Brazil, Guyana and Suriname.[5][2] As of 2015, the last two speakers of the language are living in Kwamalasamutu.[6][2]

  1. ^ Carlin & Mans 2013:79
  2. ^ a b c Mans & Carlin 2015, p. 98.
  3. ^ Aikhenvald 1999:69.
  4. ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Meira-2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Carlin 2006, p. 317.