Kawishana language

{{Short description|Extinct Arawakan language of Brazil}}{{More citations needed|date=July 2024}}{{Infobox language

| name = Cawishana

| nativename = Kaixana

| states = Brazil

| ref = {{Citation |last=Crevels |first=Mily |title=Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking |date=2012-01-13 |work=The Indigenous Languages of South America |pages=167–234 |editor-last=Campbell |editor-first=Lyle |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110258035.167/html |access-date=2025-02-01 |publisher=DE GRUYTER |doi=10.1515/9783110258035.167 |isbn=978-3-11-025513-3 |editor2-last=Grondona |editor2-first=Verónica|url-access=subscription }}

| familycolor = arawakan

| fam1 = Arawakan

| fam2 = Northern

| fam3 = Upper Amazon

| fam4 = Manao

| iso3 = none

| linglist = qsw

| glotto = kais1242

| glottorefname = Kaishana

| speakers2 =

| lingname = Kawishana

| linglist2 = 08c

| lingname2 = Kaixana

| speakers = 1

| date = 2012

}}

Kawishana (Cawishana, Kayuwishana){{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |title=American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-509427-1 |pages=180}} is an Arawakan language, nearly extinct, of Brazil. A few speakers were reported in the 1950s, and today, as of 2012, only one person can speak it.