Tags: Language.
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%.Extinct Mawakwa may have been a dialect (Loukotka 1968 Aikhenvald).Aikhenvald had included Mawayana as a variant of Mapidian but Hicks (2002) reports they are not similar.