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Piro languages

Piro
Purus
Geographic
distribution:
Purus River, Western Amazon
Linguistic classification: Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Piro
Glottolog: puru1265

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

Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:

Kaufman had considered the last to be a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may have been a dialect of Iñapari.



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