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Where is Mapidian-Mawayana spoken?

Mapidian-Mawayana is an Arawakan language, spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Suriname. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Mapidian-Mawayana is spoken

Mapidian-Mawayana is spoken in 3 countries: Brazil, Guyana and Suriname.

Country
Brazil
Guyana
Suriname

On the map, Mapidian-Mawayana is drawn as an area from Walker and Ribeiro 2011 (Arawakan). The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18643894), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Mapidian-Mawayana.

How many people speak Mapidian-Mawayana?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Nearly extinct. Glottolog lists it as nearly extinct: only a few elderly speakers are left.

Where Mapidian-Mawayana sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Mapidian-Mawayana as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Arawakan
  2. Negro-Roraima
  3. Pidjanan
  4. Mapidian-Mawayana

More about Mapidian-Mawayana

Codes: ISO 639-3 mpw, Glottolog mapi1252. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Mapidian-Mawayana

Where is Mapidian-Mawayana spoken?

Mapidian-Mawayana is spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Suriname. On the map it is shown as an area from Walker and Ribeiro 2011 (Arawakan).

Which language family is Mapidian-Mawayana in?

Glottolog places Mapidian-Mawayana in the Arawakan family, in the branch Negro-Roraima and Pidjanan.

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