Arawá language

Arawá AKA Aruá is an extinct language of Brazil. The people were wiped out by introduced measles, and the last speaker died in 1877. All that survives is a word list from 1869.

Aruá
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas State
Extinct1877
Arawan
  • Aruá
Language codes
ISO 639-3aru
aru
Glottologarua1263[1]

References

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



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