Mepuri language

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Mepuri
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Extinct(date missing)
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Mepuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmepu1234
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Mepuri is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil that was spoken around the confluence of the Rio Negro and Japurá River, mainly on the Marié River and Curicuriari River.[1][2] A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831.[1]

Classification

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Mepuri is grouped as a member of the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).[3]

References

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  2. ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
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