30103 Mawayana 1-9 Mawayana used to be spoken by a people of the same name in parts of Guyana and Brazil ... they ... merged with the larger Waiwai group in the early 20th century ... and have probably fully become Waiwai by the 1960s. But
while the Mawayana language is now all but forgotten in Guyana and Brazil, there are still native speakers left elsewhere, in Suriname. These were part of a group of Mawayana who were recruited in the late 1950s by an American missionary to help him convert the Trio people in southern Suriname ... Of this group, there are now only two elderly women left whose children and grandchildren do not speak Mawayana.
Verbal Morphology in Mawayana On 2 1-9