Piro languages
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The Piro languages, Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.
Ethnologue 16 adds Machinere Manitenére and Mashco Piro Cujareño. Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Yine.
Languages
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:- YineYine languageYine is a Maipurean language spoken in Brazil and Peru. Formerly referred to as Piro, it belongs to the Piro group which also includes Inapari, Kanamaré, and Apurinã. The name Mashco has sometimes been incorrectly applied to the Yine...
(formerly known as Piro) - Iñapari (†)
- Kanamaré (†)
- ApurinãApurinã language- Vowels :Apurinã vowels are obligatorily nasalized by surrounding nasal vowels, even across word boundaries.- Consonants :-References:*Da Silva Facundes, Sidney. The language of the Apurinā people of Brazil . Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY Buffalo. -External links:* Cathie Aberdour – * *...
Ethnologue 16 adds Machinere Manitenére and Mashco Piro Cujareño. Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Yine.