Yuruna languages

The Yuruna languages of Brazil form a branch of the Tupian language family.

Yuruna
Geographic
distribution		Brazil
Linguistic classificationTupian
  • Yuruna
Glottologyuru1262[1]

They are Jurúna, Maritsauá, and Xipaya.

Varieties

Below is a list of Yuruna language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.[2]

  • Yuruna / Paru-podeari - spoken on the middle course of the Xingú River.
  • Arupai / Urupaya - once spoken on the Xingú River south of the Yuruna tribe. (Unattested.)
  • Shipaya / Achipaya / Jacipoya - once spoken on the Iriri River and Curua River, now probably extinct.
  • Manitsauá / Mantizula - spoken in a single village on the Manissauá-Miçu River, tributary of the Xingú River.

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yuruna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.


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