Arawan languages
| Arawán | |
|---|---|
| Arauán | |
| Geographic distribution | Brazil and Peru |
| Linguistic classification | Macro-Arawakan ?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-5 | auf |
| Glottolog | araw1282 |
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Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Acre) and Peru (Ucayali).
Family division
Arauan consists of half a dozen languages:
- Arawá (also known as Arawa, Arua) (†)
- Kulina (also known as Culina-Madijá, Culina)
- Deni
- Jamamadi (also known as Madi; incl. Kanamanti?)
- Paumari
- Suruwahá (also known as Sorowahá, Zuruahá)
External links
Bibliography
- Buller, Barbara; Buller, Ernest; & Everett, Daniel L. (1993). Stress placement, syllable structure, and minimality in Banawá. International Journal of American Linguistics, 59 (1), 280-293.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2001). Internal reconstruction of tense-modal suffixes in Jarawara. Diachronica, 18, 3-30.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2004a). The Jarawara language of southern Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927067-8.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2004b). Proto-Arawá phonology. Anthropological Linguistics, 46, 1–83.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.
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