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Arawan languages

Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Acre) and Peru (Ucayali).

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Chapakura-Wañam, Jivaro, Kwaza, Maku, Mura-Matanawi, Taruma, Yanomami, Arawak, Nadahup, Puinave-Kak, and Tupi language families due to contact.

Arauan consists of half a dozen languages:

Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):

( = extinct)

Internal classification by Dienst (2010):

Arauá internal classification by Mason (1950):

Varieties listed by Loukotka (1968):

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