Piro languages

Piro
Purus
Geographic
distribution		 Purus River, Western Amazon
Linguistic classification Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Piro
Glottolog puru1265[1]

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:

Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Purus". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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