Piro languages
Arawakan languages of Peru and Brazil
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The Piro languages, a.k.a. Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.
Geographic
distributionPurus River, Western Amazon
distributionPurus River, Western Amazon
Linguistic classificationArawakan
- Southern
- Piro
| Piro | |
|---|---|
| Purus | |
| Geographic distribution | Purus River, Western Amazon |
| Linguistic classification | Arawakan
|
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | puru1265 |
Languages
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:
- Piro
- Piro (Yine, Machinere)
- Mashco Piro a.k.a. Cujareño
- Iñapari
- Kanamaré †
- Apurinã
- Piro (Yine, Machinere)
Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.
Further reading
- Brandão, Ana Paula; Sidi Facundes. Estudos comparativos do léxico da fauna e flora Aruák. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências humanas, Belém, v. 2, n. 2, p. 133–168, May/Aug. 2007.
- Facundes, Sidney da Silva. The language of the Apurinã people of Brazil (Arawak). Doctoral dissertation, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, 2000.
- Facundes, Sidney da Silva. The comparative linguistic methodology and its contribution to improve the knowledge of Arawakan. In: Hill, Jonathan D.; Fernando Santos-Granero (eds.). Comparative Arawakan histories. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002. p. 74–96.
