The Piro languages, a.k.a. Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.
Languages
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:
* Piro
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Piro (Yine, Machinere)
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Iñapari
Iñapari is a Peruvian village and capital of the Tahuamanu Province in the Madre de Dios Region, located on the triple border of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. It is connected to Brazil by the Brazil-Peru Integration Bridge, an international bridg ...
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Kanamaré
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Apurinã
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Mashco Piro
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Cujareño
Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.
Further reading
*Brandão, Ana Paula; Sidi Facundes. Estudos comparativos do léxico da fauna e flora Aruák. ''Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi''. Ciências humanas, Belém, v. 2, n. 2, p. 133–168, May/Aug. 2007.
*Facundes, Sidney da Silva. ''The language of the Apurinã people of Brazil (Arawak)''. Doctoral dissertation, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, 2000.
*Facundes, Sidney da Silva. The comparative linguistic methodology and its contribution to improve the knowledge of Arawakan. In: Hill, Jonathan D.; Fernando Santos-Granero (eds.). ''Comparative Arawakan histories''. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002. p. 74–96.
References
Arawakan languages
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