Arauan (also Arahuan, Arawán) 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. ...
9. Suruahá (a.k.a. Suruwahá, Zuruahá, Mndios do Coxodoá)
Suruahá appears only in the Ethnologue (Gordon 2005) — first contact with the community (in Amazonas) was made in 1980. Arauan (Arua) is now extinct. 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. ... An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...
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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.
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