The Piro languages, a.k.a. Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.
Languages
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:
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Piro (Yine, Machinere)
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Iñapari
Iñapari is a Peruvian village capital of the Tahuamanu Province in the Madre de Dios Region, located on the triple border of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. It is connected to Brazil by the Brazil-Peru Integration Bridge, an international bridge cr ...
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Kanamaré ''(†)''
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Apurinã
The Apurinã, also called TheIpurinã, Ipurinãn, Kangite, Popukare ( endonym), are an indigenous people who live near the Purus River in western Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is ...
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Mashco Piro
The Mashco-Piro or Mascho Piro, also known as the Cujareño people and Nomole, are an indigenous tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest. They live in Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios Re ...
a.k.a. Cujareño.
Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.
Further reading
*Brandão, Ana Paula; Sidi Facundes. Estudos comparativos do léxico da fauna e flora Aruák. ''Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi''. Ciências humanas, Belém, v. 2, n. 2, p. 133–168, May/Aug. 2007.
*Facundes, Sidney da Silva. ''The language of the Apurinã people of Brazil (Arawak)''. Doctoral dissertation, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, 2000.
*Facundes, Sidney da Silva. The comparative linguistic methodology and its contribution to improve the knowledge of Arawakan. In: Hill, Jonathan D.; Fernando Santos-Granero (eds.). ''Comparative Arawakan histories''. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002. p. 74–96.
References
Arawakan languages
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