Kawishana language


Cawishana is an Arawakan language, presumably extinct, of Brazil. A few speakers were reported in the 1950s.
Aikhenvald classifies it as a Middle Rio Negro, North Amazonian language, along with Shiriana and Manao. Kaufman had placed it in a branch of Western Nawiki Upper Amazonian along with two long-extinct languages, Jumana and Pasé, which Aikhenvald leaves unclassified. It had an active–stative syntax.