Arauan (also Arahuan, Arawán, Madi) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso) and Peru. Amazonas is the name of four subnational entities in various South American nations. ... Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. ...

Family division

Arauan consists of 9 languages:

1. Arauan (a.k.a. Arua, Madi, Arawa, Arawá) (†)

2. Culina (a.k.a. Curina, Kulina, Korina, Kulina, Kulína, Corina)

3. Dení (a.k.a. Dani)

A. Jamamadí group

4. Jamamadí (a.k.a. Yamamandi, Madi, Yamadi)

5. Kanamantí

6. Jarawara (a.k.a. Jaruára)

7. Banawá (a.k.a. Banavá)

8. Paumarí (a.k.a. Pamari, Kurukuru, Purupuru)

9. Suruahá (a.k.a. Suruwahá, Zuruahá, Mndios do Coxodoá)

Suruahá is listed in the Ethnologue (Gordon 2005) and mentioned in Kaufman (1994) from personal communication from Dan Everett — first contact with the community (a 3-day hike from the Dení's territory in Amazonas) was made in 1980. The language had not been studied as 1994, but seems most similar to Dení. It is uncertain if it is a separate language or dialect of another language (perhaps even a previously reported but undocumented one). Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts. ...

The entire ethnic group that spoke the Arauan language (a.k.a. Arua) became extinct in 1877 due to measles. An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...

Links

• Ethnologue: Arauan
• Proel: Sub-tronco Arawán

Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-2927-0414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.