Piro | |
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Purus | |
Geographic distribution: |
Purus River, Western Amazon |
Linguistic classification: |
Arawakan
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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.