Manao is a long-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
Brazil. The Manaos gave their name to the present-day city of
Manaus
Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...
, the capital city of the state of
Amazonas in
Brazil.
Vocabulary
Some words in the Manao language include:
References
Languages of Brazil
Arawakan languages
Extinct languages of South America
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