Purus languages
Arawakan languages of Peru and Brazil
The Piro languages, a.k.a. Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.
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Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:
- Piro
- Piro (Yine, Machinere)
- Mashco Piro a.k.a. Cujareño
- Iñapari
- Kanamaré †
- Apurinã
- Piro (Yine, Machinere)
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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