Kanamaré (Kanamari) is an extinct
Arawakan language
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 ...
of the
Purús River
The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park a ...
near the Peruvian–Brazilian border. Kaufman (1994) lists it as a
Piro language, perhaps a geographic classification; Aikhenvald leaves it unclassified.
It was described as a dialect of
Yine in the original wordlist.
''Ethnologue'' 17 confuses it with a living
Katuquinan language of the same name.
Notes
Arawakan languages
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