Arauan (also Arahuan, Arawan, Arawán, Madi, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso) and Peru. Amazonas is the largest state of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country. ... Flag of Mato Grosso See other Brazilian States Capital Cuiabá Largest City Cuiabá Area 906,806. ...

Family division

Arauan consists of 8 or 9 languages:

1. Arua (also known as Arawá, Arawa) (†)

2. Kulina (also known as Culina-Madijá, Culina)

3. Deni

A. Madi group

4. Jamamadi (also known as Yamamadi)

5. Kanamanti (?)

6. Jarawara (also known as Jaruára, Yarawara)

7. Banawá

8. Paumari

9. Zuruahá (also known as Suruahá)

The entire ethnic group that spoke Arua became extinct in 1877 due to measles. Corina is a fat mess that lives in mcdonalds and sometimes goes out to burger king if she feels like dieting ... Deni (also Dení, Dani) is an Arawa language spoken in Brazil. ... Jamamadí (also Jamamadi, Yamamadí, Yamamandi, Yamadi, Madi, Kapaná, Canamanti, Yamamadi, Kanamanti) is an Arauan language spoken by about 200 people scattered over Amazonas, Brazil. ... Jamamadí (also Jamamadi, Yamamadí, Yamamandi, Yamadi, Madi, Kapaná, Canamanti, Yamamadi, Kanamanti) is an Arauan language spoken by about 200 people scattered over Amazonas, Brazil. ... location of Amazonas, Brazil Jarawara (also Jaruara, Jaruára, Yarawara) is an Arauan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 155 people. ... The Banawá (also Banawa, Banavá, Jafí, Kitiya, Banauá) are an indigenous group of just seventy people 1994, living along the Banawá River in the Amazonas State, Brazil, where they are concentrated in a single village and two smaller settlements containing a single extended family each. ... Paumarí (also Paumari, Purupuru, Kurukuru, Pamari, Purupurú, Pammari, Curucuru, Palmari) is an Arauan language spoken in Brazil by about 700 people. ... Zuruahá (also called Suruaha, Suruwaha, Zuruaha, Mndios do Coxodoais, Mndios do Coxodoá) is an Arauan language spoken in Brazil by about 130 people. ... An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...

Kanamantí is listed in Kaufman (1994) with a question mark. Gordon (2005) does not list a Kanamantí language but does list the terms Kanamanti and Canamanti as alternate names for Jamamadí. Buller et. al. (1993) does not list Kanamantí in their list of Arawan languages.

Zuruahá is listed in (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 of 1994, but seems most similar to Dení.

External links

• Ethnologue: Arauan
• Proel: Sub-tronco Arawán

Bibliography

• Buller, Barbara; Buller, Ernest; & Everett, Daniel L. (1993). Stress placement, syllable structure, and minimality in Banawá. International Journal of American Linguistics, 59 (1), 280-293.
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• Dixon, R. M. W. (2001). Internal reconstruction of tense-modal suffixes in Jarawara. Diachronica, 18, 3-30.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2004a). The Jarawara language of southern Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927067-8.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2004b). Proto-Arawá phonology. Anthropological Linguistics, 46, 1-83.
• 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 0-292-70414-3.
• 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.