Endangered Languages Project - Wapixana

Wapixana

^{[aka Wapishana, Aruma, Upichana]}

Classification: Arawakan

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Wapishana, Aruma, Upichana, Wapitxano, Vapidiana, Uapixana, Wapichan, Wapichana, Wapisana, Wapishiana, Wapishshiana, Wapitxana, Wapixiana, Wapixiána, Wapisiana
CLASSIFICATION		Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Maritime
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wap
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Atorai Amariba
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<10,900
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
13,900
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There may be about 4,000 speakers out of an ethnic population of 7,000 people in Brazil (2008) and it is not spoken by all its ethnic population of 6,900 people in Guyana.

PLACES: Brazil, Guyana

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
12,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
6,000 in Guyana (2000 J. Forte).

6,000 in Guyana (2000 J. Forte). Population total all countries: 12,500. Ethnic population: 6,900 (Crevels 2007). Amariba dialect may have no remaining speakers. (2016).

PLACES: Brazil; Guyana;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Guyana: Southwest Guyana, south of the Kanuku Mountains, northwest of the Waiwai; a few villages. Brazil: Roraima.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Southwest, south of the Kanuku mountains, a few villages northwest of the Waiwai [waw] language area.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,500
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11,000
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

2.66666666667,-60.0

COORDINATES

2.3065,-59.6997

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press