Maipurean (Arawakan)

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Maipurean (Arawakan) is a major branch of the Arawakan language family, comprising several indigenous languages historically spoken across parts of South America.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Maipurean (Arawakan) canonical 2
Piapoco (Arawak) 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language subgroup
language branch
alternativeName Maipuran
Maipurean NERFINISHED
Northern Arawakan NERFINISHED
continent South America
geneticClassification Macro-Arawakan (proposed) NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution Bolivia NERFINISHED
Brazil NERFINISHED
Colombia NERFINISHED
French Guiana NERFINISHED
Guyana NERFINISHED
Peru NERFINISHED
Suriname NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
hasFeature noun classification systems in some languages
rich verbal morphology
hasWritingSystem Latin script (for some member languages)
historicallySpokenBy indigenous peoples of South America
includesLanguage Achagua NERFINISHED
Amuesha NERFINISHED
Asháninka NERFINISHED
Ashéninka NERFINISHED
Baniwa NERFINISHED
Curripaco NERFINISHED
Machiguenga NERFINISHED
Nomatsiguenga NERFINISHED
Paresí NERFINISHED
Piapoco NERFINISHED
Resígaro NERFINISHED
Tariana NERFINISHED
Wapishana NERFINISHED
Warekena NERFINISHED
Yanesha' NERFINISHED
Yavitero NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
morphology predominantly agglutinative
partOf Arawakan language family NERFINISHED
researchField Amazonian linguistics
historical linguistics
spokenIn Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
Orinoco Basin NERFINISHED
northern South America
status many member languages endangered
some member languages extinct
subgroupOf Northern Arawakan languages NERFINISHED
typology mostly SOV or SVO word order (depending on language)
usedFor reconstruction of Proto-Arawakan

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nanti language languagePhylum Maipurean (Arawakan)
Yucuna language hasPhylum Maipurean (Arawakan)
Piapoco language hasAlternativeName Maipurean (Arawakan)
this entity surface form: Piapoco (Arawak)