Piro languages

Piro
Purus
Geographic distribution:	Western Amazon
Linguistic classification:	Arawakan Southern Piro
Subdivisions:	—
Ethnologue code:	399-16

The Piro languages, AKA Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.

Languages

Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:

• Yine (formerly known as Piro)
• Iñapari (†)
• Kanamaré (†)
• Apurinã

Ethnologue 16 adds Machinere AKA Manitenére and Mashco Piro AKA Cujareño. Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Yine.