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Arawá ( Aruá) is an
extinct language An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants. In contrast, a dead language is one that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use, li ...
of
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. The people were wiped out by introduced measles, and the last speaker died in 1877. All that survives is a word list from 1869.


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Languages of Brazil Extinct languages of South America Languages extinct in the 1870s {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub