Piro (also Mashco Piro, Cujareno, Cujareño, Mashco) is a Southern Maipurean language (Southern Outlier branch) spoken in Brazil and Peru. It is closely related to other languages of the Piro group which also includes Inapari, Kanamaré, and Apuriná. The name Mashco is offensive. Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre, Arawakan, Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, mainstream Arawakan, Arawakan proper) is a language family of that spans from the Caribbean and Central America to every country in South America excepting Uruguay and Chile. ...
Regional variation
Piro has 3 varieties: A variety of a language is a form that differs from other forms of the language systematically and coherently. ...
It includes Nahuatl, the language of the ancient civilizations of the Toltecs, which lasted from the 10th to 13th centuries, and the Aztecs, which lasted from the 14th to 16th centuries, and their modern descendents.
Quechuan languages are spoken in the region of the Andes Mountains in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina, in addition to Peru.
Languages in the Cariban family are spoken mainly in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, and Venezuela.
The Piro excel all tribes of the Ucayali both in its strength and vitality, a fact which may be due to the more moderate temperature and superior healthfulness of their country.
Manuel Albaran, descending the Apurimac, was killed by the Piro.
The Piro, however, still rank among the important tribes, although, on account of their wandering habit, their true number is unknown.
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