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Wapishana

language
Class type of: Northern Maipuran Q3450493

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[4]
Country
Brazil, Guyana[2][3]
Subclass of
Northern Maipuran[5]
Ethnologue language status
6b Threatened
Has phoneme
voiced bilabial plosive, voiceless bilabial plosive, voiceless alveolar stop, voiced retroflex plosive, voiced velar stop, voiceless velar stop, glottal stop[11][12][13][14][15]
Indigenous to
Roraima, East Berbice-Corentyne, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo[8][9][10]
Maintained by WikiProject
Obelepédia
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
13000.0[6]
UNESCO language status
2 vulnerable[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Wapishana en Wapishana language es idioma wapishana fi wapixana fi wapixanan kieli ja ワピシャナ語 pt Língua wapixana ru Вапишана tr wap tr Wapishana dili uk Вапішана
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
1954
Ethnologue.com language code
wap
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/02hwv5d
Glottolog code
wapi1253
IETF language tag
wap
ISO 639-3 code
wap
Topic's main category
Category:Wapishana language
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
320, 1920
WALS lect code
wps

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🔗 Connections
Has phoneme 7
glottal stop, voiceless bilabial plosive, voiced bilabial plosive, voiceless velar stop, voiced velar stop, voiceless alveolar stop, voiced retroflex plosive
← Language used 5
Brazil, Guyana, Roraima, East Berbice-Corentyne, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo
Indigenous to 3
Roraima, East Berbice-Corentyne, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo
Country 2
Brazil, Guyana
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Topic's main category 1
Category:Wapishana language
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Wapishana language
← Language of work or name 1
jw.org
← Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Joênia Wapichana
← Native language 1
Joênia Wapichana
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Summary

Wapishana is a language[1].

Related Entities

Brazil Guyana

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . ethnologue.com. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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