Mato Grosso Arára (also disambiguated as ''Arara do Beiradão'' or ''Arara do Rio Branco'', and also known as ''Koaiá ~ Koayá'' or ''Yugapkatã''Ramirez, Henri. 2010
Etnônimos e topônimos no Madeira (séculos XVI-XX): um sem-número de equívocos
''Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica'' v. 2 n. 2, p. 179-224.
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extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

unclassified language An unclassified language is a language whose genetic affiliation to other languages has not been established. Languages can be unclassified for a variety of reasons, mostly due to a lack of reliable data but sometimes due to the confounding inf ...

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 ethnic population that spoke the language numbers about 150.

Classification

The language is unclassified, with no known connections to established families. It is attested in a single word list, which shows it is neither

Tupian The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani. Homeland and ''urheimat'' Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian urheimat to be somewhere between ...

nor

Arawakan Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branch ...

. Four people remembered the language in 2001, and two in 2008, but none were fluent speakers. Jolkesky (2010) notes some lexical similarities with

.Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010.
Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí
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Vocabulary

The following vocabulary list was collected in 2011 by Inês Hargreaves from two Arara groups in the north of the Parque Aripuanã,

Rondônia Rondônia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northern subdivision of the country (central-western part). To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, ...

. The informants were João Luis V. Arara, José Rodrigues V. Arara, Maria Aruy Arara, and Ana Anita Arara. For a more extensive vocabulary list of Arara by Jolkesky (2010),Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010.
Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí
'. see the corresponding Portuguese article.

References

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* Unclassified languages of South America Extinct languages of South America Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area {{na-lang-stub