Upper Amazon Arawakan
| Upper Amazonian Arawakan | |
|---|---|
| Inland Northern Maipuran | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Northern Amazon |
| Linguistic classification: |
Arawakan
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| Subdivisions: |
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| Glottolog: | inla1264 |
The Upper Amazon Maipurean languages, a.k.a. North Amazonian or Inland Northern Maipuran, are Arawakan languages of the northern Amazon in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil.
Upper Amazon Arawakan is surveyed comprehensively by Henri Ramirez (2001), which includes a historical reconstruction as well.
Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown (Aikhenvald's names of branches in parentheses):
He leaves the following Upper Amazon languages unclassified:
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