Arawan languages

Arawán
Arauán
Geographic distribution:	Brazil and Peru
Linguistic classification:	Macro-Arawakan ? Arawán
ISO 639-5:	auf
Glottolog:	araw1282[1]

Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Acre) and Peru (Ucayali).

Family division

Arauan consists of half a dozen languages:

• Arawá (also known as Arawa, Arua) (†)
• Kulina (also known as Culina-Madijá, Culina)
• Deni
• Jamamadi (also known as Madi; incl. Kanamanti?)
• Paumari
• Suruwahá (also known as Sorowahá, Zuruahá)

External links

• Proel: Sub-tronco Arawán

Bibliography

• Buller, Barbara; Buller, Ernest; & Everett, Daniel L. (1993). Stress placement, syllable structure, and minimality in Banawá. International Journal of American Linguistics, 59 (1), 280-293.
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• Dixon, R. M. W. (2001). Internal reconstruction of tense-modal suffixes in Jarawara. Diachronica, 18, 3-30.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2004a). The Jarawara language of southern Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927067-8.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2004b). Proto-Arawá phonology. Anthropological Linguistics, 46, 1–83.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.