Piro languages
Piro | |
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Purus | |
Geographic distribution: | Purus River, Western Amazon |
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Glottolog: | puru1265[1] |
The Piro languages, AKA Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.
Languages
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:
- Piro (Yine, Machinere)
- Iñapari (†)
- Kanamaré (†)
- Apurinã
- Mashco Piro AKA Cujareño.
Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Purus". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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