Arawan languages
Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Acre) and Peru (Ucayali).
Family division
Arauan consists of half a dozen languages:
Arawá (also known as Arawa, Arua) (†)
Kulina (also known as Culina-Madijá, Culina)
Deni
Jamamadi (also known as Madi; incl. Kanamanti?)
Paumari
Suruwahá (also known as Sorowahá, Zuruahá)
External links
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.
Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
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.
