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Purian languages

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Geographic distribution
  
east Brazil

Glottolog
  
puri1261

Linguistic classification
  
Macro-Gê? Purian

Purian languages

Purian (also Purían) is a pair of extinct languages of eastern Brazil:

  • Purí
  • Coroado Puri (a.k.a. Colorado)
  • Coropó (Koropó), once spoken in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, was added by Campbell (1997), but removed again by Ramirez et al. (2015).

    Purian is part of the Macro-Jê proposal. However, when Coropó is removed, there are not sufficient lexical connections to maintain this classification.

    References

    Purian languages Wikipedia