South America · ISO 639-3 way · Glottocode waya1269
Wayana
Wayana brings a Cariban language with source links to Brazil, French Guiana and Suriname and a shifting status into the collection.
- Language family
- Cariban
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- shifting
- Macroarea
- South America
- Source country codes
- BR · GF · SR
- Reference point
- 2.775, -54.443
Open research question
Which cross-border self-designations, writing practices and transmission situations need local evidence?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.