Mawayana language

Mawayana language
Mawayana
Spoken in Guyana
Native speakers 50  (1986)
Language family
Arawakan
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    • Mawayana
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mzx

Mawayana (Mahuayana) is an Arawakan language of Guyana.

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.



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  • mzx — ISO 639 3 Code of Language ISO 639 2/B Code : ISO 639 2/T Code : ISO 639 1 Code : Scope : Individual Language Type : Living Language Name : Mawayana …   Names of Languages ISO 639-3

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