Wapishana language
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Wapishana is an Arawakan language of Guyana
and Brazil
.
Kaufman (1994) considered Wapishana, Atorada, and Mapidian
to be dialects. Aikhenvald (1999) separates Mapidian. Ethnologue (2009) notes that Atorada has 50% lexical similarity with Wapishana and 20% with Mapidian, and that Wapishana and Mapidian share 10%.
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...
and Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
.
Kaufman (1994) considered Wapishana, Atorada, and 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%....
to be dialects. Aikhenvald (1999) separates Mapidian. Ethnologue (2009) notes that Atorada has 50% lexical similarity with Wapishana and 20% with Mapidian, and that Wapishana and Mapidian share 10%.