Parawana 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
Brazil that was spoken on the Wanawaua River (now known as the
Anauá River), a tributary of the lower
Rio Branco.
[Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. ]
Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas
'. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília. A word list was collected by
Johann Natterer in 1832.
Parawana and
Aroaqui are closely related, and may be the same language.
References
Arawakan languages
Languages of Brazil
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