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Wapishana (Wapixana) 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%.

ISO 639-3 code
wap
family
Arawakan languages
spoken in
Brazil, Guyana

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