Mawayana
[aka Mahuayana, Madipian, Maiopitian, Maopityan]Classification: Arawakan
·critically endangered
Classification: Arawakan
·critically endangered
Mahuayana, Madipian, Maiopitian, Maopityan |
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Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Maritime |
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mzx, mpw |
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Information from: “Verbal Morphology in Mawayana” . Michels, Marc (2014)
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.
Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
60-80
Guyana: few remembers, ? population. Suriname: <5 speakers, 60-80 population.
There are only a few rememberers of Mawayana among the Mawayana that live with the Waiwai of Guyana. There are only 3 Mawayana speakers and 2 other Mawayana with a good passive knowledge of their language in the Trio village Kwamalasamutu. The Mawayana are mixed with Waiwai and predominantly live among the Waiwai in Guyana; only a few are in Suriname. The Mawayana now speak Trio as their primary language.
There are only a few rememberers of Mawayana among the Mawayana that live with the Waiwai of Guyana. There are only 3 Mawayana speakers and two other Mawayana with a good passive knowledge of their language in the Trio village Kwamalasamutu . The Mawayana are mixed with Waiwai and predominantly live among the Waiwai in Guyana; only a few are
in Suriname. The Mawayana now speak Trio as their primary language.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Ethnologue has two codes for apparently a single language, Madipian [mpw] in Brazil (with alternate name Mawayana) and Mawayana [mzx] for Guyana -- both said to be 50 people living with the Waiwai.
Mawayana [mzx]: 50 in Guyana (1986 C. Howard); population total all countries: 60;
Mapidian [mpw] (Mahuayana, Maiopitian, Maopityan, Mawayana): 10 in Brazil (Moore 2006).
Southwest Guyana, living with the Waiwai. Roraima, with the Waiwai.
[mpw]: Roraima, with the Waiwai; [mzx]: Southwest Guyana, living with the Waiwai.
Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
60?
2
70 years old
Guyana: few remembers, ? population; Suriname: <5 speakers, 60-80
There are only a few rememberers of Mawayana among the Mawayana that live with the Waiwai of Guyana. In Suriname, there are only 3 Mawayana speakers and 2 other Mawayana with a good passive knowledge of their language in the Trio village Kwamalasamutu. The Mawayana are mixed with Waiwai and predominantly live among the Waiwai in Guyana; only a few are in Suriname. The Mawayana now speak Trio as their primary language.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Ethnologue gives Mawayana [mzx] and Mapidian [mpw] as separate languages.
Waiwai
Mawayana: In Guyana: also use Waiwai. In Suriname: most also use Trió [tri].
Mapidian: In Brazil: Roraima state, with the Waiwai [waw].In Guyana: Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region.
For Mawayana: In Guyana:Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region: southwest, among the Waiwai [waw] language group. In Suriname: Sipaliwini district.