Mapidian language

Mapidian language
Mapidian
Maopidyán
Spoken in Brazil
Native speakers 50  (1986)
Language family
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Wapishanan (Rio Branco)
      • Mapidian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mpw

Mapidian (Maopidyán) is a moribund Arawakan language of Brazil and formerly of Guyana.

Kaufman (1994) classified Mapidian as a dialect of Wapishana, whereas Aikhenvald (1999) separates them. Ethnologue (2009) notes they have a "lexical similarity" of 10%.

Aikhenvald had included Mawayana as a variant of Mapidian, but Hicks (2002) reports they are not similar.



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