Mato Grosso Arára Language
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Mato Grosso Arára (also disambiguated as ''Arara do Beiradão'' or ''Arara do Rio Branco'', and also known as ''Koaiá ~ Koayá'' or ''Yugapkatã''Ramirez, Henri. 2010
Etnônimos e topônimos no Madeira (séculos XVI-XX): um sem-número de equívocos
''Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica'' v. 2 n. 2, p. 179-224.
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) is an
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unclassified language An unclassified language is a language whose genetic affiliation to other languages has not been established. Languages can be unclassified for a variety of reasons, mostly due to a lack of reliable data but sometimes due to the confounding inf ...
of
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
. The ethnic population that spoke the language numbers 249 as of 2014.


Classification

The language is unclassified, with no known connections to established families. It is attested in a single word list, which shows it is neither Tupian nor
Arawakan 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 ...
. Four people remembered the language in 2001, and two in 2008, but none were fluent speakers. Jolkesky (2010) notes some lexical similarities with Tupian.Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010.
Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí
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Vocabulary

The following vocabulary list was collected in 2011 by Inês Hargreaves from two Arara groups in the north of the Parque Aripuanã,
Rondônia Rondônia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northern subdivision of the country (central-western part). It is bordered by Acre (state), Acre in the west, Amazonas, Brazil, Amazonas in the north, Mato Grosso in the east, and Bo ...
. The informants were João Luis V. Arara, José Rodrigues V. Arara, Maria Aruy Arara, and Ana Anita Arara. For a more extensive vocabulary list of Arara by Jolkesky (2010),Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010.
Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí
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see the corresponding Portuguese article.


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* Unclassified languages of South America Extinct languages of South America Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area {{na-lang-stub