Piro languages
| Piro | |
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| Purus | |
| Geographic distribution: | Purus River, Western Amazon |
| Linguistic classification: |
Arawakan
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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
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