Vapixana

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Vapixana is an alternate name for the Wapishana language, an Indigenous Arawakan language spoken primarily in parts of Brazil and Guyana.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Vapixana canonical 2
Vapichana 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
language
alternateNameOf Wapishana language
linked to: Wapichan language
closelyRelatedTo Atorada language
endangeredStatusSource UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
hasAlternativeName Vapichana
linked to: Vapixana

Wapichan
Wapichana
linked to: Wapixana

Wapichanã
linked to: Wapichan

Wapishana
linked to: Wapixana

Wapixana
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasGlottocode wapi1253
hasGlottologName Wapishana
linked to: Wapixana
hasISO6393Code wap
hasLanguageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhylum Maipurean
hasSubfamily Northern Arawakan
languageStatus vulnerable
spokenByEthnicGroup Wapishana people
spokenInCountry Brazil
Guyana
spokenInRegion Amazonas (Brazil)
linked to: Amazonas

Roraima
usedIn daily communication in Wapishana communities
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wapixana hasAlternativeName Vapixana
Vapixana hasAlternativeName Vapichana
linked to: Vapixana