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Piro languages

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Glottolog
  
puru1265

Geographic distribution
  
Purus River, Western Amazon

Linguistic classification
  
Arawakan Southern Piro

The Piro languages, a.k.a. 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 a.k.a. Cujareño.

    • Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.

    References

    Piro languages Wikipedia
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